Works To Transform Valletta Water Polo Club Completely Stalled Two Years Later
Construction works to completely transform the Valletta water polo club have completely stalled with the site entirely abandoned.
Photos sent to Lovin Malta show how works at the site, which lines Malta’s capital city, have been deserted less than halfway through the project with construction material and piles of dust all over the area.
Works began in November 2020 with the previous structure being completely demolished. However, it appears that money for the project soon ran out.
Residents are currently up in arms over the site, with people who spoke to Lovin Malta decrying how it had fallen into a miserable state and become an eyesore.
The project, while submitted on behalf of the Valletta Water Polo Club is linked to Dominic Micallef Jr, who has also run into major stumbling blocks in developing another lido at Armier Bay.
The company registered as the owner of the site is BB Beach Malta Ltd. However, it has since changed its name to SEG VWPC ONE Ltd, which is wholly owned by Micallef.
The contractor for the Valletta development, G&P Borg, has also reportedly said that works had stopped at the site in Valletta as they were owned significant sums from Micallef.
Micallef was set to open Buddha Bar, an international franchise, on government land in Armier Bay, but it also remains another unfinished construction site along Malta’s coast.
It was recently issued a stop notice over illegal works, even though the site remains in a practically abandoned state.
It remains to be seen whether the government or any authority will intervene, with the Valletta Water Polo Club and its proposed lido completely ignored almost two years later.
Micallef, who used to own Tattingers club in Rabat, has made the news in recent years, particularly after the controversial sanctioning of illegal works at his Aria Complex with the aid of Robert Musumeci.
Meanwhile, he also courted controversy after his permit to develop a hotel at the Tattingers site and right on the Mdina bastion wall despite widespread objections.
Should the government step in and take over the abandoned site?
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