The St Julian’s Residents Association is sorely disappointed with Mepa’s approval of the application for a car park, supermarket, shops and residences in St Julian’s, as the residential and commercial units will only serve to increase the traffic problems faced by residents.

This is ironic, as the project started off as the building of a car park to alleviate the parking problem in the area and, in the words of Mepa’s own deputy chairman Franco Montesin, the project will not alleviate the traffic problem in the area as the building of shops and a supermarket will generate more traffic.

Mega projects such as this only serve to make St Julian’s unbearable to live in and all the more so when they are built on the side of the valley.

Moreover, some objectors to the project did not receive notification from Mepa regarding the public hearing, which meant they were unable to express their objections publicly.

Michel Spiteri