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9 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 JANUARY 2020 NEWS Identity Malta Agency & the Malta Business Registry would like to inform the general public that as from 3rd February 2020; i. all new applications pertaining to registration of foundations and associations as legal persons in terms of the Second Schedule to the Civil Code; and ii. the submission of information pertaining to the Register of Beneficial Owners in terms of Civil Code (Second Schedule) (Register of Beneficial Owners – Foundations) Regulations and Civil Code (Second Schedule) (Register of Beneficial Owners – Associations) Regulations, shall be delivered to the Malta Business Registry, AM Business Centre, Triq il-Labour, Żejtun, ZTN 2401. The new contact persons are Dr Geraldine Spiteri Lucas and Dr Maria Schembri who can be reached on +356 2258 2300 or by email on foundations.associations@mbr.mt Any other documents relating to foundations and associations should continue to be submitted to Evans Building, Valletta, until further notice. JAMES DEBONO THE one-time quite environs around Casa Leone and the Sacred Heart Convent in St Ju- lian's are facing the prospect of a 49-room hotel construct- ed on eight levels, right across the school and convent instead of a two-storey, 19th century house. The new development is be- ing proposed by Core Proper- ties, along Triq is-Sorijiet and Triq il-Kunvent tas-Sorijiet, in the vicinity of the back-garden of The Cloisters, a stately home now being excavated for a sev- en-storey apartment block and boutique hotel. Plans for the new hotel en- visage the partial restoration of the existing townhouse, in- cluding its façade, the demo- lition of parts of the building, and the construction of five full floors and recessed top floor. The development will also in- clude four basement levels for ser- vices, a spa and a breakfast area. The application follows a strategy employed by devel- opers to first apply for a resi- dential development, and then re-apply for an increase in the number of storeys by applying for a hotel. In act the Planning Authority has already issued a permit to the same developers to partly demolish the two-storey dwell- ings and replace them with a six-floor apartment block, one of which receded. The latest application effectively adds two more storeys on what was approved in 2017. The local plan designates the site with a height limitation of four floors, or an overall height of 20.8m, which under policies introduced in 2015 now trans- lates to five floors and a pent- house level. Current policies also permit hotels to develop two extra storeys over what is allowed in local plans. The block consists of various dwellings constructed in dif- ferent periods, with the earliest one being a townhouse facing Triq il-Qalb Imqaddsa, dating to the 19th century. The permit issued in 2017 al- so foresaw the retention of the façade of the old townhouse after the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage had object- ed to its demolition. Hotel wants eight-storey permit opposite Sacred Heart convent Sayonara home… hello hotel: this 19th century house is now the site for an eight-storey hotel. Plans for the new hotel envisage the partial restoration of the existing townhouse, including its façade, the demolition of parts of the building, and the construction of five full floors and recessed top floor FOR THE BEST IN COMMENT TURN TO THE MT2