Triq is-Simar, San Pawl il-Bahar: planning intelligence
13 applications on record: 7 granted, 0 refused, 0 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 6 floors. 84 residential units granted. 1 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map 44): 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 52% of the street; elsewhere along it 4 Floors.
Policy zones along the street: NWUS3 (56%); NWUS 4 (24%); Xe mx ija Residential Priority Area (19%).
The 2006 local plan limit here is 2 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 NWUS3 (56% of the frontage); NWUS 4 (24% of the frontage); Xe mx ija Residential Priority Area (19% of the frontage).
Height precedents
- PA/02327/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed total demolition of existing terraced houses and Class 4B Shop, excavation, and construction of basement garages. Proposed construction of street level
- PA/01127/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed excavation and construction of 2 basement levels for parking. Proposed construction of 2 maisonettes at level 0, 3 apartments at levels 1-5 and 1 penth
- PA/01457/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: To carry out internal and external alterations to existing first floor maisonette. To extend existing dwelling by constructing a second floor and third floor wa
What the planning files say
Latest applications on Triq is-Simar
- PA/07860/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed changes to PA2172/24. Changes include elimination of basement level -1, change of use from Class 4B shop to substation and connection of apartments B13
- PA/05413/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction property as existing (original permit not retrieved).
- PA/05161/25 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed excavation of 4 basement levels, 2 duplex maisonettes, 5 apartments and a duplex penthouse. Access from common area is approved in PA2172/24. Proposal
- PA/02327/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed total demolition of existing terraced houses and Class 4B Shop, excavation, and construction of basement garages. Proposed construction of street level
- PA/02172/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed demolition and excavation of site, construction of substation and basement garages, street-level garages, 2 Class 4B shops including signs and overlyin
- PA/01127/24 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed excavation and construction of 2 basement levels for parking. Proposed construction of 2 maisonettes at level 0, 3 apartments at levels 1-5 and 1 penth
- PA/01457/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: To carry out internal and external alterations to existing first floor maisonette. To extend existing dwelling by constructing a second floor and third floor wa
- PA/01046/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed construction of apartment blocks consisting of 25 apartments, 1 duplex penthouse, 24 garages, 8 car spaces, 6 domestic stores at level 1 and level 2, a
- PA/03529/22 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed alterations and sanctioning of work from PA2919/21, The alterations are: Change in the site perimeter as per latest survey, construction of garages at
- PA/02461/22 San Pawl il-Bahar: To construct new penthouse no.16 fronting at Telghat ta’ Xemxija and Triq is-Simar on existing receded floor approved in PA5859/20. To construct a pool.
- PA/03561/21 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction minor variations to approved permit PA1396/17 and demolition of wall.
- PA/02919/21 San Pawl il-Bahar: Proposed excavation of a vacant plot to construct two underground basement level carpark (with 13 No. open parking bays substituting the 8 No. closed 1-car gara
- PA/00536/20 San Pawl il-Bahar: To sanction variations and additions to a three-bedroom apartment approved in PA 1396/17. To carry out alterations to parapet walls.
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.