As it has been doing for the past five weeks, this newspaper continues to analyse the new development boundaries in each locality and highlight specific cases where the proposed zones will affect cultural heritage or the rural topography of the area.

Last week we featured Zebbiegh and Mellieha and, after asking for your comments, we discovered something quite interesting in the former locality.

As can be seen in the two photos reproduced, the development line of Site A at Zebbiegh runs through an old irrigation channel thus allowing development much too close to ancient rock cut chambers. It would be a terrible shame if such priceless archaeological and rural heritage were to be bulldozed.

The good news is that with the new development boundary plans announced last Wednesday calls for an archaeological study to be conducted on the site in question and for the development to be held in abeyance until said studies are completed. The corridor between Mgarr and Zebbiegh has also been eliminated.