Overdevelopment
Concrete, cranes and vanishing open space. What gets built, what gets lost, and who profits while the public lives with the result.
Public interest. On the record.
Overdevelopment, overtourism and decisions that put profit before people. Malta On Record documents how the island is being reshaped, who gains from it, and the public left to live with the result. Kept where anyone can find it, so the record stays straight.
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How Malta's pavements, squares and coastline were quietly handed to business over more than a decade, and why nobody stopped it.
Read the full story › AccountabilityThey had the email address. They used it, after the fact. The reason given for no call before the tow was a contact preference on an account that was never knowingly created. Their own proof a sign was up is the angle of a strip of masking tape.
Read the story and sign the petition ›Malta is small, and it is being reshaped at speed. Coastline becomes apartments. Streets fill with cranes and cars. A few people do very well out of it, and the public is left with the traffic, the dust, the rising rents and the open spaces that used to belong to everyone.
Much of it is perfectly legal, and that is the point. The cost is paid in plain sight, decision by decision, then forgotten by the next news cycle. This is an attempt to hold on to it: to write down what is happening, show the evidence, and keep it somewhere it cannot be quietly buried.
Concrete, cranes and vanishing open space. What gets built, what gets lost, and who profits while the public lives with the result.
An island stretched past its limits. Residents priced out of their own towns and left to absorb the crowds, the noise and the strain.
Following the decisions and the money behind them, then turning the moment into something lasting: a record, a petition, a demand you can sign.