NGOs have expressed their disappointment at the Planning Authority after the entity gave the go-ahead for this piece of our heritage to be dismantled and moved to make way for a new road in Marsaxlokk which will link Triq Lepanto and Triq il-Kavallerizza.

NGOs have been opposing the planning application that was originally filed in 2020. Then group of NGOs includes Marsaxlokk Heritage, Nature Trust–FEE Malta, Din l-Art Ħelwa, Moviment Graffitti, Il-Kollettiv, Flimkien Għal Ambjent Aħjar, Friends of the Earth Malta, Wirt iż-Żejtun, and the Archaeological Society Malta who stated that these plans are “an extreme measure that is both unjustified and irreversible”