PA/08061/25: demolish existing building in Rabat
Xewqitna, Triq Santa Barbara, Rabat
To demolish existing building, excavate site, and construct basement, ground floor garage and one residential unit spread over four floors including receded floor.
- Status
- Granted (This application has been approved by Planning Board / Commission.)
- Location
- Xewqitna, Triq Santa Barbara, Rabat
- Locality
- Rabat
- Applicant
- Cheyenne Parnis
- Perit
- Perit Jonathan Borg
- Application type
- Full development permission
- Zone
- Within Development Zone
- Type of works
- Demolition & New Construction (Residential)
- Height
- 3 floors plus a receded floor
- Residential units
- 1
- Received
- 14 November 2025
- Validated
- 17 December 2025
- Published
- 17 December 2025
- Comments close
- 26 January 2026
- Recommendation
- Grant Permission
- Decision
- Grant Permission
- Decision date
- 4 May 2026
- Permit expires
- 20 May 2031
Case details on the Planning Authority website
Plans, case officer report and decision on eapps
Planning activity around Xewqitna, Triq Santa Barbara, Rabat
178 other applications within 300 m: 121 granted, 1 refused, 16 pending. 99% of decided applications nearby were granted. Tallest granted nearby: 5 floors (PA/02412/24).
On Triq Santa Barbara: 13 other applications, 9 granted and 0 refused; granted buildings are typically 4 floors, the tallest 4. Periti active on this street: Ronald Zammit Lucas, John Schembri, Roderick Camilleri.
Approval estimate for demolition & new construction applications like this here: about 95% (likely range 65–100%, low reliability, from 13 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/02884/24 Rabat: Proposed demolition of a first floor maisonette already approved by virtue of PA6695/18 (which was not utilised) and retention of the construction of a block…
- PA/02742/23 Rabat: Proposed changes to PA/06695/18, proposal includes 1 new residential unit and other minor changes.
- PA/05317/26 Rabat: Proposed modifications to pre-1967 dwelling as previously amended by PA1253/24, including conversion of living room to garage, and proposed extension.
- PA/01253/24 Rabat: Additional washroom over the existing terraced house.
- PA/01550/24 Rabat: Proposed change of use of Class 4 unit covered by PA/04400/06 to a Class 4A veterinary consultancy practice. Proposal includes minor internal alterations.…
- PA/01734/23 Rabat: Alterations to a pre-1968 first floor maisonette. Proposal also includes the construction of a second floor with an overlying washroom.
- PA/02211/25 Rabat: Proposed internal alterations to an existing garage including removal of existing mezzanine, removal of internal walls, lowering of floor level and…
- PA/00209/22 Rabat: Sanctioning of a garage, a domestic store, 3 apartments and overlying domestic stores as built over site covered by PA00253/00. Variations include internal…
- PA/06892/25 Rabat: To sanction minor changes in layout to that approved in RG/01025/23, to propose installation of pv panels at lower roof level and to sanction/propose minor…
- PA/01186/26 Rabat: Minor internal alterations to house and extension of room at receded floor.
- PA/08142/25 Rabat: To change use from ground floor car garage to residential unit. To include change to the facade from garage opening to two apertures.
- PA/00498/24 Rabat: To demolish existing dwelling and re-construct basement and overlying apartments (including the development of airspace of neighbouring dwelling) - to…
- PA/02198/26 Rabat: Demolition of existing dwelling (keeping existing facade) and construction of 4 apartments including pool at roof level
- PA/05195/26 Rabat: To demolish existing townhouse approved under RG/01719/24 and propose construction of a two storey house with a washroom at roof level and reservoir underneath.
- PA/06379/24 Rabat: Alterations to existing townhouse. Demolition and shifting of internal walls and staircase, change of use of habitable rooms at basement level to garage for…
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