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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 24 MAY 2015 8 News MATTHEW VELLA HIS Bank of Valletta cards were reportedly inside his wallet the day Muatassim Gaddafi was caught by Libyan rebels who, months before in February 2011, had started a revolution to oust his father, dicta- tor Muammar Gaddafi. Muatassim, 36, died in the Liby- an desert, bearded and in his last gasps on a hospital bed, with a gap- ing wound in his throat on 20 Oc- tober, 2011 after being captured at the fall of Sirte. But before the Lieutenant Colo- nel met his fate, his life had been JAMES DEBONO PLANS submitted to the Malta Environment and Planning Au- thority foresee a huge heart- shaped extension to the Ramla Bay Hotel, which is located out- side development zones in Mar- fa. 100 apartments located in a new block consisting of six levels will replace 45 existing apartments which are presently interspersed in nine, separate one- to two-sto- rey buildings located on a land- scaped area next to the hotel. The new project also envisag- es the take-up of an extra 3,000 square metres of public land for the development of pools and paved sunbathing areas. While a substantial part of the land earmarked for the extension is already disturbed or occupied by the existing apartments, a small part of the extension will encroach on the foreshore and on the protected buffer zone for the Ramlet il-Qortin tower. The plans submitted by architect Ray Demicoli to the Malta Envi- ronment and Planning Authority also foresee new indoor and out- door recreational facilities, cater- ing outlets, an underground car park and service areas. Holden Limited, a company owned by Tarcisio Galea, is pro- posing the development. The Lands Department has been notified about the planning application. According to stand- ard procedure, consent for de- velopment on public land is only given by the Lands Department if a MEPA permit is issued. The existing one- and two-sto- rey apartment blocks are spread over an area of 10,296 square me- tres and are now set for demoli- tion. Instead a heart shaped exten- sion will accommodate 100 apart- ments in six levels in one block. The new block will have the same height of the existing hotel, which is being retained. A boomerang shaped "reflec- tive pool" will surround the heart shaped building. A 102-room extension of the Ramla Bay Hotel in Marfa was approved by MEPA in 2009. Heart-shaped extension for Mellieha's Ramla Bay The Ramla Bay Hotel – plans submitted for its extension Playboy son of dictator Muammar Gaddafi had easy €50,000 credit line to BOV He never left home without