PA/02143/26: sanction existing dwelling as built in Floriana
16, Binja Vilhena, Pjazza Sir Luigi Preziosi, Floriana
To sanction existing dwelling as built.
- Status
- Granted (This application has been approved by Planning Board / Commission.)
- Location
- 16, Binja Vilhena, Pjazza Sir Luigi Preziosi, Floriana
- Locality
- Floriana
- Applicant
- Joseph Calleja
- Perit
- Perit Charles Buhagiar
- Application type
- Full development permission - Summary Process
- Zone
- Within Development Zone
- Type of works
- Sanctioning
- Received
- 10 March 2026
- Validated
- 22 May 2026
- Published
- 1 April 2026
- Comments close
- 20 April 2026
- Decision
- Acceptable
- Permit expires
- 3 June 2031
The public planning file has 13 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 16, Binja Vilhena, Pjazza Sir Luigi Preziosi, Floriana
134 other applications within 300 m: 85 granted, 3 refused, 18 pending. 97% of decided applications nearby were granted. Tallest granted nearby: 6 floors (PA/02172/22).
On Pjazza Sir Luigi Preziosi: 13 other applications, 6 granted and 1 refused; granted buildings are typically 2 floors, the tallest 3. Periti active on this street: Elena Borg Costanzi.
Approval estimate for sanctioning applications like this here: about 91% (likely range 61–100%, low reliability, from 25 comparable decisions nearby). 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/02516/23 Floriana: Change of use from vacant building previously used as Class 2C educational facility to 6 in number Class 1 apartments including internal alterations as well…
- PA/03692/25 Floriana: To sanction alterations to approved casa bottega in PA1328/19, and proposed alterations.
- PA/03427/24 Floriana: Construction of airspace into a duplex apartment at 3rd and recessed 4th floor level.
- PA/07423/24 Floriana: Internal alterations to existing corner townhouse, including shifting/opening of doorways and walls, removal of internal partitions and soffits, installation…
- PA/06328/24 Floriana: Change of use from headquarters for the Girl Guides Association as approved in PA/06282/99 to a residential unit and the sanctioning of internal changes to…
- PA/05101/25 Floriana: Proposed rehabilitation to a 9-bedroom guesthouse (Class 3A), including an extension on the third and setback floors. Previous permits on site PA/06282/99 and…
- PA/04735/26 Floriana: Internal alterations consisting of installation of two ensuites and two bedrooms and facade alterations consisting of opening of two windows into doors and…
- PA/07053/26 Floriana: To extend the approved stairwell and lift shaft approved in PA8128/21 and construct a new receded floor not exceeding the maximum height of the near by…
- PA/03215/26 Floriana: Conversion of two approved offices and a residence at ground floor level in Vilhena Apartments to be converted into two residences namely No 12, Trejqet…
- PA/02592/24 Floriana: Alterations to an existing townhouse and construction of an extension at the third-floor level and stairwell at roof level.
- PA/05780/26 Floriana: Internal alterations to existing pre-1968 townhouse, including improved accessibility and construction of a recessed additional floor aligned with…
- PA/00903/20 Floriana: Restoration of façade and conversion of an existing maisonette, including minor internal alterations (removal of lightweight partition, partial removal of…
- PA/02164/23 Floriana: Proposed interior alterations consisting of changes of openings, construction of extension at third floor, and to change of use to Class 4A office.
- PA/03973/23 Floriana: To propose the replacement of an existing timber garage door by a replica galvanized door and to sanction the replacement of another adjacent timber door by a…
- PA/03244/25 Floriana: The restoration of the facades of Pinto Stores, the Chapel of the Flight of the Holy Family to Egypt, and Forni Stores I.
More by Charles Buhagiar
- PA/07613/26 Mosta: To sanction minor discrepancies of an approved Class 6A warehouse as per PA6636/19, including relocation of reservoir and aperture. To propose higher boundary…
- PA/07368/26 Rabat: To propose change of use from an approved private car garage as per PA3404/26 to a public service garage.
- PA/06798/26 Zejtun: To propose internal alterations to an existing pre-1967 town house. To propose construction of two additional floors so as to create three separate units.
- PA/06601/26 St Julians: To construct an additional one bedroom unit at receded floor level to approved PA7740/18.
- PA/06493/26 Gzira: To carry out alterations and construct a room at roof level .
- PA/06407/26 Siggiewi: Outline application : To replace 3 farmhouses which were demolished during public infrastructural works with another three farmhouses.
All applications by Charles Buhagiar
More from Joseph Calleja
- PA/05881/26 Birkirkara: Proposed internal and external alterations to Class 4B shop approved in PA/01023/23.
- PA/08143/25 Rabat: To demolish existing terraced house and construct garage at ground floor, two duplex apartments and a penthouse.
- PA/01412/25 Siggiewi: Demolition of existing dwelling except for the hallway, staircase and part of the façade. Proposal includes excavation for basement and the construction of…
- PA/03338/24 Birkirkara: To sanction existing differences from PA/06508/03 following detailed survey of pre-1967 dwelling and to revert the approved conversion of the first room to a…
- PA/03002/24 Santa Venera: To sanction change of class from garage to Class 4B ironmongery including minor internal and external alterations.
- PA/04923/23 San Pawl il-Bahar: Internal alterations, replacement of apertures, widening of main door, blocking of window and relocation of gate leading to front porch to a pre-1968 ground…