Triq Karm Galea, Sliema: planning intelligence
6 applications on record: 4 granted, 0 refused, 0 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 8 floors. 7 residential units granted.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map SJ3): 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 along 37% of the street; elsewhere along it 6 Floors, 6 Floors.
Policy zones along the street: Residential Area NHHO01; Category B+ (44%); Category B (24%); Category C (21%).
The 2006 local plan limit here is 3 floors; granted buildings are typically 8 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 Area NHHO01; Category B+ (44% of the frontage); Category B (24% of the frontage).
Height precedents
- PA/08392/24 Sliema: To demolish existing top receded floor at the 7th floor level and the extension of the common parts on the upper roof level on the 8th floor, and to construct s
- PA/00338/24 Sliema: Renewal of PA/02493/17 (To extend fourth and penthouse levels).
What the planning files say
Latest applications on Triq Karm Galea
- PA/08392/24 Sliema: To demolish existing top receded floor at the 7th floor level and the extension of the common parts on the upper roof level on the 8th floor, and to construct s
- PA/00338/24 Sliema: Renewal of PA/02493/17 (To extend fourth and penthouse levels).
- PA/06089/23 Sliema: To sanction minor internal and external variations to PA2344/10.
- PA/04801/23 Sliema: To convert a children’s residential home (pre-1968 Class 2A) into a (day time) child care center Class 2C located at ground floor only. Proposal includes office
- PA/01418/22 Sliema: Proposed minor internal alterations consisting of opening up of internal dividing walls.
- PA/00034/20 Sliema: Internal alterations at ground floor apartment. No changes to facade.
Other streets in Sliema: Triq it-Torri, Triq Manwel Dimech, Triq Rodolfu, Triq il-Kbira, ix-Xatt ta' Tigne', Triq Sant' Elena, Triq Gafar, Triq Viani, Triq il-Kullegg l-Antik, Triq Bisazza, Triq Tigne', Triq Depiro.