Privacy notice

Last updated: 2026-08-13.

Planning data

This site publishes planning case references, case types, site boundaries, site areas, dates, descriptions of proposed works and decisions. These come from the Planning Authority's public map services and from the Planning Authority notices published in the Government Gazette.

We do not collect private individuals' names

We do not collect the names of private individuals who apply for planning permission. Where an application is made by a company, institution or other organisation, we record the organisation. Where it is made by a private person, their name and address are discarded when we process the notice and are never stored.

This is a deliberate design choice, not a display setting. The information is discarded at the point we process each notice, so it is not held in our database, our search index or our backups. We keep only a flag recording that an application came from a private individual rather than an organisation, so that we can count how many do without knowing who they are.

We do retain the original Government Gazette PDFs as our source documents, exactly as the Department of Information published them, so that our figures can be checked.

Organisations

Where an applicant is a company, institution or other organisation, we record and publish it. Information about an organisation acting commercially in a public planning process is not personal data in the ordinary case. Where an organisation's name incorporates a person's name, we process it on the basis of legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) — transparency in public development and providing a business information service.

Architects and periti are named to signed-in subscribers, because a licensed professional acting in a public planning process is not a private individual. Their names are not published on the open web. Private individuals who apply in their own name are discarded when we process the record and are never stored at all.

Your email address

If you join the mailing list we store your email address, the trades and localities you select, and the page you signed up from. We use it only to tell you about this service. We do not sell or share it. Unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email, or by emailing us.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port, and object to our processing of your personal data. To exercise any of these, email contact@planningintel.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

If a record on this site relates to you and you want it removed, tell us. We maintain a suppression list, so a record removed on request stays removed even after we refresh our data from the Planning Authority.

You may also complain to the Maltese Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC).

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