PA/00154/26: demolish existing hotel covered by permit PB/03038/87 in Mellieha
Festaval, Side Road from, Triq Tad-Dahar, Mellieha
To demolish existing hotel covered by permit PB/03038/87 and reconstruct same hotel as built in line with same permit retaining: - The number of floor levels as approved/built; - The building gross floor area as approved/built; - The number of rooms as approved/built; - The footprint as approved/built; - The external volume as approved/built.
- Status
- Suspended (Application processing is currently suspended at the perit's request)
- Location
- Festaval, Side Road from, Triq Tad-Dahar, Mellieha
- Locality
- Mellieha
- Applicant
- Mizzi Estates Ltd Attn: Chris Mizzi
- Perit
- Dr Edwin Mintoff
- Application type
- Outline development permission
- Zone
- Outside Development Zone
- Type of works
- Demolition & New Construction
- Received
- 19 September 2025
- Validated
- 21 January 2026
- Published
- 21 January 2026
- Comments close
- 20 February 2026
The public planning file has 500 documents: plans, reports, consultations and the decision.
Case details on the Planning Authority website
Plans, case officer report and decision on eapps
Planning activity around Festaval, Side Road from, Triq Tad-Dahar, Mellieha
3 other applications within 300 m: 1 granted, 0 refused, 0 pending.
On Triq Tad-Dahar: 3 other applications, 1 granted and 0 refused.
Approval estimate for demolition & new construction applications like this here: about 95% (likely range 65–100%, low reliability, from 0 comparable decisions nearby). Outside the development zone, where approvals are harder. Indicative only. It's based on decisions for similar nearby applications, not on the drawings or the case officer's report; it gets better as documents are added from eapps.
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