Triq ic-Cern, San Pawl il-Bahar: planning intelligence
11 applications on record: 7 granted, 0 refused, 2 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 7 floors. 5 residential units granted. 2 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map 42): 5 Floors, an overall height of 22.90 m (23.80 m with a basement, 25.00 m with a semi-basement) under the PA's interpretation of height limitation.
Policy zones along the street: St.Paul's Bay Village/Bu gibb a/Qawra Residential Area NWUS 3.
The 2006 local plan limit here is 5 floors; granted buildings are typically 7 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 St.Paul's Bay Village/Bu gibb a/Qawra Residential Area NWUS 3.
Height precedents
- PA/00895/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: To carry out an extension of the fifth floor level apartment, as well as to construct an overlying duplex apartment on the sixth and seventh floor levels. (Site
What the planning files say
Pending now
- PA/05564/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction garage as built (no permits could be traced).
- PA/00471/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction minor changes to existing ground floor level garage and underlying domestic store as built, originally approved in PA2631/92.
Latest applications on Triq ic-Cern
- PA/05564/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction garage as built (no permits could be traced).
- PA/02661/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed change of use from approved Class 4B Shop (PA 2445/25) to Pastizzeria
- PA/00895/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: To carry out an extension of the fifth floor level apartment, as well as to construct an overlying duplex apartment on the sixth and seventh floor levels. (Site
- PA/03743/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction minor internal and external alterations to a pre-1968 apartment.
- PA/02445/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed change of use from existing ground floor level garage to Class 4B shop including installation of signage.
- PA/00484/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed change of use of part of garage to public service garage.
- PA/06714/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Change of use from store to garage.
- PA/00471/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction minor changes to existing ground floor level garage and underlying domestic store as built, originally approved in PA2631/92.
- PA/06275/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: Addition of rooms to existing penthouse, placing of pergola and addition of solar panels at upper room.
- PA/02157/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction apartment as built (original permit could not be traced).
- PA/02126/21 San Pawl il-Bahar: To extend an existing apartment at fifth floor level and construct a new apartment at receded level
Other streets in San Pawl il-Bahar: Triq San Pawl, Triq il-Qawra, Triq it-Turisti, Triq Burmarrad, Triq it-Tamar, Triq Piscopo Macedonia, Dawret il-Gzejjer, Triq il-Wardija, Triq Sant' Antnin, Triq it-Trunciera, Triq Sir Luigi Preziosi, Triq Parades.