The Lands Authority have a legal duty to decide on all aspects
of public property and had a right to refuse an application to
increase demarcation of a development. This was held in a judgement
delivered by the Administrative Review Tribunal presided by
Magistrate Dr Charmaine Galea in Richard Attard -v- L-Awtorita
tal-Artijiet, decided on August 3, 2020.
Attard filed an application stating that in October 2019 the
Board of Governors in the Lands Authority rejected his application
to move an existing building alignment of a property in Sta Venera.
This land was never used since he purchased it in 1983, but part of
it was acquired by the government for public use when constructing
the road. The applicant, Attard, asked the Planning Authority to
shift the building alignment in order for the alignment will be the
same as other buildings in the same streets. He was prepared to
purchase this area again in question from the government. Attard
described how he tried to get
