Għargħur council wants daycare centre on land which Church plans to sell

The Għargħur council has written to the Archbishop’s Curia over a plot of agricultural land which is up for sale and which it would like to convert into a day care centre and a night shelter for the locality’s aging population.

Mayor Helen Gauci said the council had asked the church to allow it to carry out the project it had long been planning for villagers. The plot lies just behind the church, close to the village core and was originally planned to be turned into catechism classrooms and facilities for parish use.

“We only found out about the sale of the plot of land through the story on Times of Malta. The deadline had already passed but we still wrote to the Curia to tell them what we planned to do with the plot should we manage to get our hands on it,” she said.

She explained many elderly people resided in Għargħur and therefore a day care centre and a night shelter for those who feel lonely and unsafe at home would be ideal. Besides, the creation of underground parking would alleviate the massive parking problem in the village streets.

The Curia is selling a portion of developable agricultural land it owns in Għargħur to finance the restoration of the parish church and...