Triq il-Gargir, Rabat: planning intelligence
10 applications on record: 5 granted, 2 refused, 1 pending (71% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 4 floors. 18 residential units granted. 2 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map 64): 3 Floors, an overall height of 15.40 m (16.30 m with a basement, 17.50 m with a semi-basement) under the PA's interpretation of height limitation.
Policy zones along the street: Facilities (73%); Open Space Gaps between Settlements (27%).
The 2006 local plan limit here is 3 floors; granted buildings are typically 4 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 Facilities (73% of the frontage); Open Space Gaps between Settlements (27% of the frontage).
Height precedents
- PA/02185/23 Rabat: Proposed construction of basement garages, 4 maisonettes at ground floor level, 12 apartments at first, second and third floor level plus 2 overlying penthouses
What the planning files say
Refused here
- PA/04291/24 Rabat: Minor internal and external alterations to maisonettes 2 and 4 approved in PA3873/19. Change of use of maisonettes no. 2 and 4 to two separate Class 4B retail o
- PA/03320/23 Rabat: To change the use from field into a yard to park agricultural machinery and vehicles, construction of a Class 4A office, sorting and packing area, hard landscap
Pending now
- PA/03913/26 Rabat: To propose modifications to internal layouts as approved in PA 3873/19 at ground floor level. To propose internal and external alterations at ground and first f
Latest applications on Triq il-Gargir
- PA/03913/26 Rabat: To propose modifications to internal layouts as approved in PA 3873/19 at ground floor level. To propose internal and external alterations at ground and first f
- PA/03896/26 Rabat: To change use of stables approved in PA/04353/19 to agricultural stores, including external and internal alterations, and correction of site measurements follow
- PA/03213/25 Rabat: Sanctioning of minor internal and external alterations as-built from PA/8675/17.
- PA/01443/25 Rabat: To sanction internal variations to the layout of the garages from that approved in PA3873/19 (basement -1, 11 x 1 car garage, 7 x 2 car garage, 1 x 3 car garage
- PA/06851/24 Rabat: To carry out minor internal alterations to existing apartment No 8 approved with PA/02510/23.
- PA/04291/24 Rabat: Minor internal and external alterations to maisonettes 2 and 4 approved in PA3873/19. Change of use of maisonettes no. 2 and 4 to two separate Class 4B retail o
- PA/03320/23 Rabat: To change the use from field into a yard to park agricultural machinery and vehicles, construction of a Class 4A office, sorting and packing area, hard landscap
- PA/02510/23 Rabat: To sanction change in site configuration and internal alterations to plans approved with PA1956/20.
- PA/02185/23 Rabat: Proposed construction of basement garages, 4 maisonettes at ground floor level, 12 apartments at first, second and third floor level plus 2 overlying penthouses
- PA/01862/21 Rabat: Proposed changes to a licensed cow farm consisting mainly of the elongation of the existing cow shed and other ancillary changes. Most of the proposed works wer
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