Triq Santa Marija, Sliema: planning intelligence
11 applications on record: 7 granted, 0 refused, 0 pending (100% of decided granted). Granted buildings are typically 10 floors. 3 residential units granted. 2 new in the last 12 months.
What the local plan allows
Official height limit (2006 local plan, map SJ3): 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 77% of the street.
Policy zones along the street: Residential Area NHHO01; Category B (91%).
The 2006 local plan limit here is 2 floors; granted buildings are typically 10 floors, and some 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 (91% of the frontage).
Height precedents
- PA/03481/25 Sliema: 3A Guesthouse which consists of sanctioning on all levels. To sanction the property as built making minor alterations to all rooms from the 1st to the 9th floor
- PA/05294/23 Sliema: Change of use from existing two floor residential house (Class 1) to a 10-bedroom guest house (Class 3A), with the addition of a mezzanine level and an addition
What the planning files say
Latest applications on Triq Santa Marija
- PA/04841/26 Sliema: To sanction property from previously approved permit PA07930/24 and proposal of minor internal and external alterations including a spiral staircase within back
- PA/00571/26 Sliema: Extension at roof level to create receded room and stair hood and proposed jacuzzi at new proposed roof level.
- PA/03481/25 Sliema: 3A Guesthouse which consists of sanctioning on all levels. To sanction the property as built making minor alterations to all rooms from the 1st to the 9th floor
- PA/08258/24 Sliema: Proposed modification to the use of rooms.
- PA/07930/24 Sliema: Minor alterations to existing internal layout to re-convert the merged property into two separate dwellings. Sanctioning of minor alterations to approved permit
- PA/05096/24 Sliema: To sanction alterations to pre-1967 townhouse.
- PA/05294/23 Sliema: Change of use from existing two floor residential house (Class 1) to a 10-bedroom guest house (Class 3A), with the addition of a mezzanine level and an addition
- PA/03500/22 Sliema: Proposed changing of ceilings, minor internal alterations including partial demolition, extension at second and receded floor levels, solar panels at roof level
- PA/02438/22 Sliema: Minor internal alterations at all levels, demolition of accretions in back yard and extension into back yard, construction of full floor at second and receded f
- PA/01882/22 Sliema: Minor internal alterations to existing townhouse including interconnection of rooms, demolition of accretions, raising of backyard, opening of door onto Rudolph
- PA/02721/21 Sliema: To change of use from residential Class 1 to Class 3A, from garage to Class 4B and sanctioning alterations from previous permit PA7384/16.
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.