New Gozo law courts receives Planning Commission's green light

The Planning Commission has announced that it has approved new law courts for Gozo.

The development will include a multi-storey car park and it will facilitate the process for the relocation of the law courts from their current location in Cittadella to the new site just outside the centre of Rabat.

The planning commission has said that the new law courts building will become a landmark architectural feature within an extensive public plaza to be built in close proximity of the town centre of Rabat.

According to the plans, the building will be accessible to all and the project will also include the construction of six levels of parking under the building, of which the first basement level will include 54 car parking spaces dedicated to the magistrates, personnel and staff for the operation of the law courts building. The remaining five levels will accommodate a further 441 car parking spaces for the public.

The commission said that a site selection exercise was carried out as part of the planning process, which included the possible upgrading and refurbishment of the existing law court building.

The exercise assessed variables including the location, environmental impacts, landscape and visual impacts, social impacts, technical and operational considerations, economic impacts and transport among others.