Is Tal-Bragg under the axe?

Abstract

Tal-Braġġ might not immediately sound familiar to many. It is a residential area on the fringe of Mellieħa, overlooking the picturesque Selmun promontory area and ostensibly falling within the infamous 2006 scheme ‘rationalisation’ exercise. The site was offered to Tumas Group in lieu of another site at Tas-Sellum in Mellieħa which was struck off the list for development, initially on ecological grounds but it later emerged that the latter site was unsuitable for development due to its friable clayey nature of the land. As a result, the site at Tal-Braġġ, measuring some 11,000m2 (equivalent to one-and-a-half full-size football pitches), ceased to be an Outside Development Zone site.