Media Statements

18 Jul 2025

Eating Away at Our Open Spaces: A Threat to Our Lives

Fortunately, the number of environmentalists is on the rise as more individuals recognize that our islands are at a critical juncture—our open spaces are under threat from rampant development, and our coasts and seas are being irrevocably depleted. Political decisions are having a direct impact on our environment. As environmentalists, we respond to projects proposed by government and private entities that could harm our surroundings....

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20 Jun 2025

Din l-Art Ħelwa welcomes the tribunal’s decision to revoke the permit for a swimming pool issued by the Planning Commission last December in the scheduled area of Ta’ Baldu.

The site lies within a Natura 2000 area and is further protected for its ecological and archaeological value. Despite clear rural policies militating against the approval of pools in such sensitive areas, the Planning Commission justified the permit on the basis that the proposed pool was “temporary.” The proposal had initially been recommended for refusal by the PA’s Directorate due to its...

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16 Dec 2024

    Din l-Art Ħelwa calls for accountability on Fort Chambray: Minister for Culture’s silence on development permissions unacceptable Din l-Art Ħelwa, the national trust for cultural built heritage in Malta, expresses its deep concern and disappointment regarding the recent approval by the Planning Authority for the demolition of most of the historic British Barracks at Fort Chambray, Gozo and the massive residential...

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21 Jun 2024

Organisations call on Prime Minister to change rotten planning appeals system

Joint Press Statement 21.06.2024 [MT version and picture below]   Organisations call on Prime Minister to change rotten planning appeals system   No sign of promised reform as planning increasingly becoming a developers’ fiefdom   14 organisations are denouncing the failure to reform the law regulating planning appeals, something which was promised by the Prime Minister in May last year, but never...

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16 Feb 2024

DIN L-ART ĦELWA LAUNCHES RED TOWER MULTILINGUAL VIDEOS

  Din l-Art Ħelwa has launched self-guide videos to the Red Tower in Mellieħa in English, Maltese, Italian, Spanish, French and German. The 17th Century tower is the most visited site held under guardianship by DLĦ, with over 40,000 visitors in 2023, an impressive increase of over 29 per cent over the previous year. The site is run by warden James Evans...

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27 Jun 2023

58th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION DINNER

Patron: His Excellency George Vella, President of Malta 58th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION DINNER 22nd June 2023 Dear Members and Friends,  Din l-Art Ħelwa is pleased to announce the relaunching of its traditional Anniversary Celebration Dinner after the lull enforced by the pandemic. As in previous years, the dinner will be held at the idyllic venue of San Anton Gardens, Attard. The date...

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16 Aug 2019

Authorities dragging their feet over fuel stations

PRESS RELEASE Din l-Art Helwa notes that the saga on the fuel station relocation policy goes on, with the risk that yet more land outside development zone is lost to the unquenchable thirst for such facilities whilst a proper policy is being drawn up. The preparation of the update of the fuel stations policy was first announced in January 2018. Sixteen...

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