The Malta Chamber of Planners (KMaP) has been
established since 1997 with the primary aim of
bringing together a multi-disciplinary approach to the
Maltese planning system. It unremittingly strives to
obtain official recognition for the Planning profession
in Malta, and discusses ways to ensure that
qualified planners are in a position to participate in
policy debates, to give their valuable contributions,
and proactively influencing the development of
spatial planning policy and practice.
The Chamber is an active member in international
planning associations primarily the European
Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP) and the
Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP).
KMaP is also embarked on a painstaking task of
ensuring that decision takers and new employees
within the Malta Environment and Planning Authority
(MEPA), the national planning institution, are given
basic planning training in order to gradually
introduce newcomers to their new roles by means of
academic background rather than solely basing
themselves on experience and „common sense‟.
The Chamber managed to actively involve itself in
the MEPA reform process by highlighting the
shortcomings in the current planning process and
providing viable solutions to the existing problems
through the vast practice experience into policy that
the Chamber possesses.
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