Triq Vittorio Cassar, Birkirkara: planning intelligence
7 applications on record: 4 granted, 0 refused, 2 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 3 floors. 1 residential units granted. 3 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map BKM4): 2 Floors, an overall height of 11.40 m (12.30 m with a basement, 13.50 m with a semi-basement) under the PA's interpretation of height limitation along 83% of the street; elsewhere along it 3 Floors plus semi-basement.
Policy zones along the street: Residential Areas CG07.
The 2006 local plan limit here is 2 floors; granted buildings are typically 3 floors, and the tallest grants went above the 2006 limit (later policy, DC15 and the 2024 height rules, allows more in places).
Along the street the policy map shows Residential Areas CG07.
Height precedents
- PA/00145/26 Birkirkara: Restoration of facade and internal alterations to property, including the construction of extensions at first floor and second floor.
What the planning files say
Pending now
- PA/05844/26 Birkirkara: The proposed sanctioning of the railing at washroom level, access to top of washroom, clothing line structure and the vertical diving wall on the terrace. This
- PA/01918/26 Birkirkara: To eliminate requirement for insertion of kileb in ground floor maisonette as approved in permit condition 7 of PA/04394/20 due to risk to public safety resulti
Latest applications on Triq Vittorio Cassar
- PA/05844/26 Birkirkara: The proposed sanctioning of the railing at washroom level, access to top of washroom, clothing line structure and the vertical diving wall on the terrace. This
- PA/01918/26 Birkirkara: To eliminate requirement for insertion of kileb in ground floor maisonette as approved in permit condition 7 of PA/04394/20 due to risk to public safety resulti
- PA/00145/26 Birkirkara: Restoration of facade and internal alterations to property, including the construction of extensions at first floor and second floor.
- PA/03313/24 Birkirkara: Restoration of property including internal alterations and sanctioning of existing washroom.
- PA/07081/23 Birkirkara: To sanction extension of room at ground floor level of a pre-1968 building. To replace dilapidated RC roof, and aperture.
- PA/05107/23 Birkirkara: Internal minor alterations, removal of accretions in internal yard, construction of storage at intermediate level, construction of bedrooms and pool at first fl
- PA/04935/23 Birkirkara: Renewal of permit PA189/18 for the ”Rehabilitation of existing town house, including alterations at ground floor; construction of additional rooms at first floo
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