PA/00432/25: excavate the site to construct three terraced in Gharb
Site at, Triq Birbuba, Gharb
To excavate the site to construct three terraced houses with underlying garages for private cars, domestic stores and swimming pools.
- Status
- Granted (This application has been approved by Planning Board / Commission.)
- Location
- Site at, Triq Birbuba, Gharb
- Locality
- Gharb
- Applicant
- Jonathan Borg
- Perit
- Perit Deborah Busuttil
- Application type
- Full development permission
- Zone
- Outside Development Zone
- Type of works
- New Construction
- Residential units
- 3
- Received
- 23 September 2024
- Validated
- 29 January 2025
- Published
- 29 January 2025
- Comments close
- 28 February 2025
- Recommendation
- Grant Permission
- Decision
- Grant Permission
- Decision date
- 17 February 2026
- Permit expires
- 4 March 2031
Case details on the Planning Authority website
Plans, case officer report and decision on eapps
Planning activity around Site at, Triq Birbuba, Gharb
51 other applications within 300 m: 30 granted, 1 refused, 6 pending. 97% of decided applications nearby were granted. Tallest granted nearby: 3 floors (PA/02115/24).
On Triq Birbuba: 31 other applications, 17 granted and 1 refused; granted buildings are typically 2 floors, the tallest 3. Periti active on this street: Alexander Bigeni, Mariella Xuereb, Leonard Spiteri, David Vassallo, John Saliba.
Approval estimate for new construction applications like this here: about 95% (likely range 65–100%, low reliability, from 6 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.
- PA/02392/25 Gharb: To sanction differences from approved drawings in PA/07132/21 including extension at second floor level.
- PA/02106/25 Gharb: To carry out extension to dwelling approved in PA/03393/22.
- PA/03393/22 Gharb: To sanction the alterations and extensions to dwellings approved in PA04643/19. Alterations include changes to layout, facades, levels, to site outline and…
- PA/03017/25 Gharb: To sanction minor deviations from approved permit PA/00991/01, including alterations to pool shape, relocation of reservoir, addition of an underground pump…
- PA/00750/22 Gharb: To demolish existing apartments, excluding the existing pool; and to construct basement garages for private cars; one maisonette and apartment at the…
- PA/02115/24 Gharb: Additions and alterations at all levels of the existing building approved in PA1080/90, installation a lift shaft, construction of an extension at the receded…
- PA/01506/22 Gharb: To construct agricultural store for arable farming with underground reservoir. To propose widening of existing ramp and to raise the existing soil level by…
- PA/05178/24 Gharb: Following an accurate site survey, to sanction wall thicknesses and outdoor area layout including location of pool. Proposed works to include construction of…
- PA/04220/23 Gharb: To sanction changes from PA3763/20. Changes include alignment of boundary of property following accurate survey. To also sanction domestic store at second…
- PA/01882/23 Gharb: To sanction alterations to dwelling approved in PA00056/14. Alterations include changes to layout and facade.
- PA/03008/24 Gharb: Sanctioning of small room and side window at second floor, chimney flue at roof, pergola at first floor and minor internal alterations overlooking courtyard…
- PA/07279/26 Gharb: To dismantle and reinstate structurally unsafe roof using same materials and to raise same roof by 80cm.
- PA/08707/24 Gharb: To carry out alterations and extensions to residential dwellings approved in PA/00673/03. Alterations include changes to layout, facades, to include lift and…
- PA/00559/20 Gharb: Alterations and additions consisting in replacing of timber beams in ground floor sitting room; alterations to first floor bedrooms and construction of…
- PA/03000/22 Gharb: Minor alterations to layout of washroom approved in PA559/20.
More by Deborah Busuttil
- PA/07565/26 Xaghra: To propose a washroom at receded-floor level, in lieu of PA/04051/20.
- PA/07447/26 Sliema: To demolish the existing dwelling, carry out excavation works, and construct a Class 4B shop at ground floor and basement levels, six apartments at first to…
- PA/06626/26 Xaghra: To propose excavation works and the construction of a maisonette, swimming pool and reservoir at ground-floor level, including four flats from first to…
- PA/06450/26 Marsa: Correction of the approved use of the existing premises from “garage for private cars” to the originally approved use as a “Class 5B aluminum workshop”, as…
- PA/06321/26 Xewkija: To sanction property as is.
- PA/06276/26 Sliema: To retain existing facade, to propose minor external alterations, to demolish existing rooms, to propose change of use from Class 4B shop to Class 4A office…
All applications by Deborah Busuttil
More from Jonathan Borg
- PA/00674/26 Qormi: To sanction an existing garage as built, approved under PA/06617/05, including the construction of an underground water reservoir and a domestic store, a…
- PA/00403/26 Qormi: To sanction minor internal alterations and façade modifications from the approved permit PA/06617/05.
- PA/06112/25 Ghajnsielem: To propose partly finished project approved (but expired) PA/02168/14. To add demolished garage covered by DS/00032/18 to project. Facade to be kept as…
- PA/01297/25 Xewkija: To sanction the demolition of part of the façade and to proposed construction of same façade (exactly as previously built) and to propose minor internal…
- PA/01836/24 Nadur: Proposed demolition of dilapidated structures and excavation for a store at basement level, and the development of Class 4B at ground floor level, the…
- PA/01331/24 Qala: Excavation of site, construction of lock up garages at basement level, two maisonettes on ground floor level with their own interconnecting street level…