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THE Planning Authority will decide on 29 January on three separate applications from the Corinthia Group to add more floors to its three hotels in St George's Bay. The company wants to add two extra floors to the Marina Hotel, Radisson Blu Resort and Corinthia San Gorg. If approved, this would in- crease the number of hotel rooms in one of Malta's busiest tourist areas by 250. The De- velopment and Management Directorate has recommended that all three applications be ap- proved. While each application is be- ing assessed individually, all three rely on the same policy justification and are justified through similar arguments on visual impact, traffic and tour- ism priorities. Central to the Directorate's reasoning is the claim that the surrounding context has already been "heavily committed" to high-rise development. The case officer reports repeatedly cite nearby towers such as the db Group development, Mercury Tower, the Hilton Hotel tower and other tall buildings in Pace- ville as evidence that the skyline has already absorbed substantial vertical growth. In this context, the additional floors are pre- sented as visually subordinate rather than dominant. The first proposal concerns the Radisson Blu Resort at St George's Bay, where Baypoint Hotels Limited is seeking out- line permission to increase the hotel from five to seven storeys. The extension would add 74 rooms, raising the hotel's ca- pacity from 257 to 331 rooms, through an additional 6,599 square metres of gross floor area created by covering existing ter- races and constructing two new upper floors. WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 WEDNESDAY • 17 DECEMBER 2025 • ISSUE 971 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY EDITORIAL • PAGE 11 CONTINUES PAGE 3 Corinthia seeks new floors on St George's Bay hotels CONTINUES PAGE 2 Sliema cat killer's prison sentence revoked JAMES DEBONO jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt The applications foresee two extra f loors on all three hotels in St Julian's increasing the number of rooms by 250 The company wants to add two extra floors to three major hotels in St George's Bay Mosta residents cite Ian Borg's draft law to oppose hotel MAYA GALEA mgalea@mediatoday.com.mt JAPANESE national Okamura Sa- toshi, who was sentenced in Octo- ber to two years' imprisonment and fined €15,000, has had his sentence revoked and will have to be re-sen- tenced. PAGE 4