The Government will continue to invest in the South of Malta to give people nicer places, better air quality, better infrastructural services and more open spaces. Contrary to this government, Nationalist administrations abandoned the Cottonera and never looked to really provide environmental projects in these localities.
Nowadays, the Cottonera is seeing several works, including the regeneration of the Isla entrance, the garden on the Glacis in Birgu, the plans for an open space on a new underground car park in Bormla, the rehabilitation of the Cotton Garden, the planting of trees in the area of San Ġwann T’Għuxa, the investment in the Cottonera Sports Complex which is hosting the first indoor swimming pool of Olympic size, the regeneration of the Sally Port and Kalkara square and infrastructural work to improve electricity and water services among others.
The Kalkara project alone is seeing an investment of around €5.5 million through which the residents, among others, will have a pedestrian square, more trees, a larger and safer promenade, while new services will be provided. The work was done in an area that is reclaimed from the sea and the structural work in different parts had to be done below sea level. The project was so well received by the residents, that discussions are ongoing so that another area in the same area, known as Tax-Xewkija, will also be regenerated.
The Nationalist Party remained with the same strategy. They tried to fool the people in 2019, three months before the Local Council elections when the works were being done in Triq Rnella and they are doing the same again today, three months before the 2024 Local Council elections.
