The Environment and Planning Review Tribunal held on 23 July 2026 that a Valletta joinery in use since the 1950s is not development, and that an NGO that never objected cannot appeal. It matters to objectors and to owners of long-standing uses.
The Court of Appeal holds that a lapse in forwarding Planning Board asset declarations does not void Board decisions, but a Tribunal that accepts overriding reasons without assessing impact on neighbours misuses its discretion.
The Court of Appeal held that the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal wrongly made objectors prove a breach of site coverage rules, but dismissed their appeal because the permit rested on other findings. It matters to anyone appealing a planning permit.
The First Hall of the Civil Court held that a buyer's claim to undo a sale over a partial eviction was time-barred, because it waited more than a year after learning part of the land was a planned road. It matters to buyers of land hit by planning enforcement.