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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 15 MAY 2024 NEWS F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Partly cloudy Visibility Good Wind Northwest force 5 to 6 backing West Northwest force 6 to 7. Overnight becoming force 5 to 6 Sea Rough, locally very rough at times TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER WINDY 29 0 / 18 0 TODAY WINDY 26 / 20 0 FEELS LIKE 26 0 FEELS LIKE 29 0 JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt ACROSS 1) Church focal point 6) Far away from port 11) "Boo" mo. 14) Difficult to get through 15) Understand 16) Promise 17) Driving toward 19) 112.5 degrees from S 20) Add it to "a one" to make "none" 21) Material that's worsted for wear? 23) Zagreb's place 27) Old pro 29) Moved by semi 30) Gen. Charles de ___ 31) Bewhiskered mammal 32) Group of officers 33) Software program, briefly 36) Customary practice or observance 37) Prefix meaning "bone" 38) Cut remnant 39) Word from Homer 40) Like a DC comics "man" 41) "I'll second that" 42) Mexican Januaries 44) Like many radials 45) If everything fails miser- ably 47) Chinese dumplings 48) Where Dolphins play 49) Start up a computer 50) Wood shaping tool (var.) 51) Attempt to lure 58) ___ Paulo 59) Dangerous sub of WWII 60) Aligned perfectly 61) ___-pitch softball 62) Numerical sense? 63) America's bird DOWN 1) Big hullabaloo 2) Sportscaster Berman 3) Blast maker 4) Fire remnant 5) Come again? 6) Old Greek marketplace 7) Food carrier 8) Feeling blue 9) "To the max" suffix 10) Last Supper guest 11) Be melodramatic 12) Kind of line 13) Adolescent, almost 18) Make a sudden attack 22) Sniggler's catch 23) Musical combo? 24) 6:1, e.g. 25) Expensive way to pay? 26) Away from gales 27) Skywalker's daddy 28) Certain dollar 30) Airport choices 32) A hundred bucks 34) Eucharist plate 35) Gives the goad-ahead? 37) Yours and mine 38) Deposit for a moist bank 40) Not to be taken lightly 41) Having toothlike notch- es 43) ___ de plume 44) TV, informally (with "tube") 45) Gather for a collection 46) Type of wave 47) Market value 49) Defeated 52) Agent's org. 53) Sly critter 54) Nest egg letters 55) Give a little pull 56) Communications abbr. 57) Keats poem, e.g. Ghaxaq shopping mall owners do not want to pay full cost of new junction SCHEMBRI Barbros Ltd is refus- ing to pay in full for a new rounda- bout junction that will ease traffic flow outside a proposed shopping complex in Għaxaq. The complex will be spread over 35,767sq.m on a site that current- ly consists of a batching plant, the Lidl supermarket and other retail outlets along Triq tal-Barrani. When approving the project in principle through an outline permit approved in March, the planning board had tied the de- velopment to a condition that a "strategic roundabout junction at the site access has to be upgraded and completed prior to the com- mencement of works on the com- mercial hub ". The board had also said the expenses to the "highway upgrading" had to be fully borne by the developer. But the developers have asked the Planning Authority to recon- sider this condition first by limit- ing the costs of the new rounda- bout by eliminating the reference made to "highway upgrading" to avoid any "unnecessary ambigui- ties." Moreover, the company also wants the condition revised in a way to reduce the financial bur- den on the company. It said the condition was "not fair and equi- table" and one which "does not reflect the transport impact of the approved development". While admitting that the pro- posed development will "naturally increase traffic flows", the devel- opers contend that "the need for a strategic roundabout junction certainly does not come about solely due to the proposed devel- opment". It said the construction of the new roundabout will also facilitate the current "vehicular traffic coming from and going to the southernmost villages of Mal- ta." Instead of paying in full for the roundabout, the developers are proposing that their financial con- tribution should be capped to re- flect the development's "share of network traffic" which, according to a Traffic Impact Assessment stands at around 22%. According to the approved plans , the retail and leisure complex will be built over three floors (10.5m) on a footprint of 14,220sqm. Two levels of underground parking are set to accommodate 1,014 parking spaces. Apart from shops, the complex will also include a 2,500sq.m un- derground gymnasium and a 700sq.m childcare centre. The upper floor will include 7,000sq.m of food and beverage outlets. The project envisages a total floor area of 18,700sqm dedicated to retail. The existing Lidl supermarket will be retained and enlarged. The developers are now expect- ed to present a full development application based on the param- eters established in the outline permit. The developers will only be able to commence works on the project after the approval of the full development permit and a separate permit for the new roundabout. Schembri Barbros Limited is owned by Barbros Group Limited which is owned by Ephriam, An- ton, Carmelo, Franridge and Mary Schembri, Claudine Barbara and Josephine Guntrip.