{"id":4337,"date":"2019-10-23T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/jerma-palace-hotel-development-brief-in-the-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:06:00","slug":"jerma-palace-hotel-development-brief-in-the-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/jerma-palace-hotel-development-brief-in-the-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerma Palace Hotel development brief in the pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerma Palace Hotel development brief in the pipeline<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com\/\" alt=\"The ex-Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier\" title=\"The ex-Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                                                    A development brief for the ex-Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala is being prepared by the Planning Authority in order to establish clear parameters on the regeneration of the site which has been left abandoned since 2007.<br \/>\nOne of the main objectives of the exercise is to come up with a maximum allowable building height limit, which has been a source of controversy each time the site has been earmarked for redevelopment.<br \/>\nThe move, which is the result of a formal request by the government to the Planning Authority, comes at a time when the site is being earmarked for a 15-storey hotel and apartment complex.<br \/>\nSubmitted last year by Porto Notos Limited, the development application comprises 166 luxury apartments, 250 hotel rooms, an underground parking, business centre, public chapel and a lido.<br \/>\nMoreover, the developer is pledging to extend the landscaped area around the historic St Thomas Tower, and create a public open space above the proposed parking to extend the promenade.\u00a0<br \/>\nHowever, the application is currently suspended at the developer\u2019s request.<br \/>\nDevelopment briefs are meant to provide an outline for the scale, range and quality of development for a particular site while&#8230;<br \/>\nSource: TOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerma Palace Hotel development brief in the pipeline A development brief for the ex-Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala is being prepared by the Planning Authority in order to establish clear parameters on the regeneration of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-malta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}