PA/04335/25: demolish existing building in Msida
Stores 6 and 7, Triq l-Irmigg, Triq Garcin, Msida
To demolish existing building, and construct twenty-four residential units over 7 levels, and 2 garages at ground floor.
- Status
- Granted (The request for reconsideration on permit condition/s has been granted.)
- Location
- Stores 6 and 7, Triq l-Irmigg, Triq Garcin, Msida
- Locality
- Msida
- Applicant
- Nexus Development Ltd Attn: Gilbert Bugeja
- Perit
- Perit Ruben Sciortino
- Application type
- Full development permission
- Zone
- Within Development Zone
- Type of works
- Demolition & New Construction (Residential)
- Height
- 7 floors
- Residential units
- 24
- Received
- 21 March 2025
- Validated
- 16 July 2025
- Published
- 16 July 2025
- Comments close
- 1 September 2025
- Recommendation
- Grant Permission
- Decision
- Grant Permission
- Decision date
- 11 February 2026
- Permit expires
- 13 May 2031
Case details on the Planning Authority website
Plans, case officer report and decision on eapps
Planning activity around Stores 6 and 7, Triq l-Irmigg, Triq Garcin, Msida
178 other applications within 300 m: 119 granted, 5 refused, 8 pending. 96% of decided applications nearby were granted. Tallest granted nearby: 8 floors (PA/02770/25).
On Triq l-Irmigg: 14 other applications, 6 granted and 0 refused; granted buildings are typically 5 floors, the tallest 5. Periti active on this street: Falzon & Cutajar, Matthew Bugeja, James Bonnici Camilleri.
Approval estimate for demolition & new construction applications like this here: about 95% (likely range 65–100%, low reliability, from 33 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.
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- PA/04035/23 Msida: Demolition of an existing terraced house to construct a ground floor garage and six overlying levels consisting of 12 residential units.
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- PA/01013/20 Msida: To sanction minor alterations which include the removal of the walls in the living room, the addition of the bathroom, the shifting of the bathroom shaft, the…
- PA/00229/21 Msida: Construction of three additional dwellings above existing third party dwellings and garage, application also includes alterations to common area and…
- PA/04848/23 Msida: To sanction variations from the approved drawings of a second floor apartment in PA4173/92.
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