PA/06096/24: sanction internal alterations and site configuration and in Gzira
Orchid 56, Triq tas-Sliema, Gzira
To sanction internal alterations and site configuration and divide existing penthouse into two units.
- Status
- Refused (Planning Authority decision reviewed by Appeals Board / EPRT)
- Location
- Orchid 56, Triq tas-Sliema, Gzira
- Locality
- Gzira
- Applicant
- Duncan Bonello
- Perit
- Perit Duncan Muscat
- Application type
- Full development permission
- Zone
- Within Development Zone
- Type of works
- Sanctioning
- Residential units
- 2
- Received
- 2 May 2024
- Validated
- 18 September 2024
- Published
- 18 September 2024
- Comments close
- 18 October 2024
- Recommendation
- Refuse Permission
- Decision
- Refuse Permission
- Decision date
- 28 February 2025
Case details on the Planning Authority website
Plans, case officer report and decision on eapps
Planning activity around Orchid 56, Triq tas-Sliema, Gzira
139 other applications within 300 m: 84 granted, 9 refused, 10 pending. 90% of decided applications nearby were granted. Tallest granted nearby: 7 floors (PA/06418/25).
On Triq tas-Sliema: 26 other applications, 15 granted and 1 refused; granted buildings are typically 6 floors, the tallest 6. Periti active on this street: Edwin Mintoff, Stephen Farrugia, Alexis Inguanez, Tancred Mifsud, Edward Coppini.
Approval estimate for sanctioning applications like this here: about 92% (likely range 62–100%, low reliability, from 30 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/07566/24 Gzira: Proposed demolition of slab over ground floor and reconstruction of slab.
- PA/04211/26 Gzira: Proposed demolition of this abandoned pre-1968 residential unit and construction of 6 apartments over ground floor office Class 4A.
- PA/08263/24 Gzira: To excavate 2 reservoirs and to construct ground floor 2 car garage and Class 4B convenience shop, 4x apartments and 1x penthouse.
- PA/04812/26 Gzira: To sanction minor difference from approved layouts in PA/7611/17.
- PA/06335/26 Gzira: Internal alterations to existing building as approved in PA/4522/95.
- PA/08601/24 Gzira: Proposed alterations and additions to approved permit PA/04897/22. Proposed alterations include correction of site extents, change from car parking spaces to…
- PA/02941/23 Gzira: Change of use from laundrette to Class 4B (retail) and variations from the official building alignment.
- PA/03852/24 Gzira: To demolish existing premises, to excavate basement level and to construct an underground reservoirs, six basement garages, two ground floor maisonettes,…
- PA/01005/24 Gzira: Proposed signage.
- PA/05639/23 Gzira: Demolition of existing building and construction of street level garages and Class 4B outlet at elevated ground floor from Triq Dr Guze Miceli and 6 overlying…
- PA/04200/24 Gzira: Sanctioning of the removal of two basement levels due to unforeseen construction issues and other internal as built alterations, and proposed internal…
- PA/04246/25 Gzira: To sanction Class 4A ancillary office for condominium administration, formally a residential unit as approved in PA/06191/08, part of which was regularised as…
- PA/05319/23 Gzira: Renewal of PA3131/18 - To convert existing penthouse into flat and reconstruct penthouse.
- PA/00654/21 Gzira: Proposed alterations and additions to the approved development permit PA/01774/19, which include two additional basement levels connected to the basement…
- PA/00780/22 Gzira: Use of outdoor area for placing of tables and chairs, and installing retractable canopy.
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- PA/05867/26 San Pawl il-Bahar: To reinstate dividing wall and divide existing restaurant into two separate restaurants (as was approved in PA2400/99).
- PA/05319/26 Zejtun: Conversion of an existing tool room within a small two-storey rural building into a value-added Class 4D, agricultural processing facility.