The news item carried in another English language newspaper on Friday 13 concerning MEPA’s “second thoughts” regarding the demolition of the facade of the Sliema Baroque building, must be very heartening news for the civic-minded people fighting to save what remains of our local and national heritage.

One hopes that similar heartening news may some day be announced by the same entity with regard to the underground war-time (and other) heritage underneath High Street in Hamrun, when the second hearing of the appeal against DCC permit PA 05495/02 lodged by the undersigned is heard in two weeks’ time.

It is worth reminding all those who are interested in the preservation of local and national heritage protected by the Heritage Act of Malta, that since last May, all of the war-time (and other) protected heritage underneath the side of High Street Hamrun where the proposed excavation has been permitted (and already initiated), now faces a very uncertain future thanks to the precedent that was created when this permit was approved. Approval was given even after copious evidence of this protected heritage was submitted to all the authorities concerned.

Sergio and Doreen Galea Vincenti

Hamrun