Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar has applied to lease or buy the same plot of land in Pembroke Chiswick school is attempting to purchase.
FAA Coordinator Claire Bonello, speaking with The Malta Independent, said that public land is always being given to developers, "so we thought to ourselves, why not try and do the same thing?" She explained that the Lands Authority now has to decide whether to give the land to a private commercial interest, or hand it over for public enjoyment.
She said that if the Lands Authority grants the land to FAA, they will keep 100% of it for the public. She said that the FAA already received a planning permit from the Planning Authority to erect a hedge boundary around the site.
"We want to keep the land untouched," she said.
FAA have not heard back from the Lands Authority, regarding their request to lease or buy the land, so do not know the price, however Bonello did say she hopes it would be roughly €50 per sqm- "roughly the same amount the db Group paid for the ITS land."
"This is a desperate attempt to make the Government, the Lands Authority or whoever to sit up and take notice. We need public open space. We are being forced to buy back our land, our air, our right to nature. Does the Government want to empty our children's piggybanks so they can breathe and run and play?" Bonello asked.
Chiswick House School's had proposed a new school in Pembroke which will introduce young children to an entirely new concept of learning and take up 25 per cent of its allocated footprint, school director Bernie Mizzi had previously said.
The whole idea caused an uproar among Pembroke resident, who had even organised a protest.
The Environment Minister himself, Jose Herrera, had even attended that protest.
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