Triq Bordin, Msida: planning intelligence
7 applications on record: 3 granted, 0 refused, 2 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 6 floors. 11 residential units granted. 2 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map MP2): 4 Floors, an overall height of 19.90 m (20.80 m with a basement, 22.00 m with a semi-basement) under the PA's interpretation of height limitation.
Policy zones along the street: Major Government Institutions and Ancillary Facilities.
The 2006 local plan limit here is 4 floors; granted buildings are typically 6 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 Major Government Institutions and Ancillary Facilities.
Height precedents
- PA/08286/24 Msida: To demolish existing 2No, pre-1968 dwellings and construct maisonette and Class 4B at ground floor, 10 overlying apartments at 1st floor to 5th floor and a rece
What the planning files say
Pending now
- PA/05709/26 Msida: To demolish pre-1967 structure and construct a Class 4B premises and maisonette at ground floor, 10 overlying 1-bedroom units at first to fifth floor and 2 stud
- PA/04774/26 Msida: To demolish existing dwellings, to excavate and to construct 11 residential units and a shop (Class 4B).
Latest applications on Triq Bordin
- PA/05709/26 Msida: To demolish pre-1967 structure and construct a Class 4B premises and maisonette at ground floor, 10 overlying 1-bedroom units at first to fifth floor and 2 stud
- PA/04774/26 Msida: To demolish existing dwellings, to excavate and to construct 11 residential units and a shop (Class 4B).
- PA/02931/25 Msida: To eliminate basement level including substation (approved in PA4719/21) due to GIR reports which found an existing old quarry beneath the site. Proposal includ
- PA/08286/24 Msida: To demolish existing 2No, pre-1968 dwellings and construct maisonette and Class 4B at ground floor, 10 overlying apartments at 1st floor to 5th floor and a rece
- PA/07132/23 Msida: Change of use from Class 4B to catering establishment Class 4D, sanctioning of discrepancies to permit PA/2271/15 & PA/4500/97, and proposed reinstatement of ga
- PA/00797/21 Msida: Proposed change of use from garage to Class 4B shop including to sanction alterations to facade.
- PA/00458/21 Msida: To sanction the construction of a reinforced concrete roof over the kitchen area and to propose light colour render instead of the brown facade cladding at grou
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