As beautiful as Malta is, current construction trends are threatening to overshadow the island’s natural and historic beauty.

Locals have been waging an online war on the situation for ages, and popular singer Corazon Mizzi has recently joined the debate by sharing a personal experience: “When you ask the Malta Planning Authority, ‘but why can’t I widen my garage entrance or leave aluminium on my façade when the entire street has aluminium and new façades?’, they reply with: ‘True, but you have to start from somewhere’,” she wrote on her Facebook page, continuing that: “Even here, I have to start from somewhere.”

Corazon included a picture of what appears to be a proposed design for a block of apartments adjacent to a string of town houses. Her post generated much commentary about the current situation, with many sharing images of other incongruent street designs observed around Malta.

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