Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat yesterday announced a project aimed to give a new lease of life to Mlit housing estate in Mosta, improving the standard of life of families in housing estates. Costing about €700,000, the work is expected to renew life in housing estates, which the government has neglected for years, with residents feeling they are considered second class.

Such a project, Dr Muscat said, needs three important partners: the central government, without whose participation such a project would not be possible, the local council, and the private sector. If the present government will not be disposed to invest in such a project, a new government will be committed to carry it out.

An investment of €700,000 in families is more than just the €4 million spent for the chairman of Malta Enterprise to do up his office, he said. The housing estate development would have children in mind, new technology, children’s security and the elderly. Parking would be more organised.

Perit Daniel Camilleri, who has worked on the project, said the area would improve in value, infrastructure would be better and families would have a recreation area. Included in the works would be a civic amenity site, where instead of bring-in sites on the outside, these would be placed underground.