Mistaking the wood for the trees

Abstract

While the Ulysses Lodge case was hogging all the limelight (and rightly so for some of its aspects), very few drooled on an even more galling permit grant, still relating to the Ramla l-Hamra environs. PA02407/04 relating to the construction of a large cemetery along Triq Ghajn Qasab in Nadur, was granted, pursuant to the granting of outline permission in reference to PA2887/02. The site lies on the upper reaches of the valley leading to Ramla 1-Hamra and is shorn of any previous development scars. Hence, if the Ulysses Lodge case (where the site was, at least partly, encroached on by a previous development and redevelopment was on the cards, up to an extent) kicked up all the rumpus it did, why then did the Nadur cemetery case (where not even the slightest sliver of redevelopment was contemplated) did not attract at least so much media attention?