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sold at a judicial auction in
October 2016. The demolition of the dilapidated hotel buildings was to cost around €1.5 million. The same year, PN local councillor Charlot Cassar suggested that the site be bought by the Maltese government and turned into an open space for public enjoyment. In September 2016 the owners appealed against an enforcement order by the Planning Authority. In May 2018, the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal upheld an appeal and annulled the demolition order.
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stated that only a hotel, and not apartments, could be developed on the site, since the 2006 local plan had identified the site to be mainly used for tourist accommodation. JPM also faced a massive €40 million loan call-in which forced them to scale down their ambitions. In July 2015 the
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and the issue of an enforcement notice, on 20 August 2016 the
Planning Authority ordered the hotel's owners to demolish the building. On that same day, the building caught fire, which was put out by the Civil Protection Department. The Jerma Palace, which had been valued at €20.8 million, was to be
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in the vicinity. The "three towers" proposal was later downscaled to units of 12 and 13 storeys, including an apartment complex; in
December 2017 the Marsaskala local council, including Labour Mayor Mario Calleja, voted overwhelmingly in favour of this new project, in contradiction with the same
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The hotel closed down in March 2007, and is now in a derelict state, with parts of it having collapsed and others being in danger of collapsing. Its interior has been stripped of everything of value, with carpets, marble floors, doors, tiles and even bricks being stolen. The walls are covered in
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government in August 2020 downscaled the total investment to 65,000 square meters and a development of up to 8 storeys including for residential use, doubling the footprint of the estate from the current 8,700 to 17,700 square metres. In June 2020, Marsascala local council voted in favour of a
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In July 2008 the Jerma Palace was sold for €18.6 million to the brothers
Jeffrey and Peter Montebello (Jefpet Limited, JPM Construction), who planned to transform the former hotel into apartments, a 5-star hotel and a yacht marina. However, then Prime Minister
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graffiti. The building is occupied by squatters, and it is popular with drug addicts. The former hotel also became an illegal dumping ground, with people disposing of their garbage there. Rubbish left at the hotel caused a number of fires.
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through his company Porto Notos Ltd (co-owned with lawyer Pierre Lofaro) applied to demolish the former hotel and replace it with a massive development of two high-rise residential towers of 44 and 32 storeys, and a 22-storey hotel on
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local council's July 2015 position. The development would have had a 7,000 square metre footprint with a floor area of 61,000 square metres, as well as a 10,500 square metre public park around
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13-storey building on the side. Seven NGOs initiated legal action against the decision, deeming that the
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until it closed down in 2007. The building was subsequently abandoned, and it has since fallen into a state of disrepair. Plans to demolish the former hotel began in 2016.
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administration, permitted development over a staggering 100,000 square meters, 40% of which for apartments. A second development brief approved by the
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entry, was filmed onsite. In 2021, the Jerma Palace was shown as a fictive alien architectural background in the
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