{"id":19996,"date":"2026-05-29T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/breaking-news-dpc-oks-major-land-reclamation-in-gibraltar-dredging-today\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:36:36","slug":"breaking-news-dpc-oks-major-land-reclamation-in-gibraltar-dredging-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/breaking-news-dpc-oks-major-land-reclamation-in-gibraltar-dredging-today\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: DPC OKs major land reclamation in Gibraltar &#8211; Dredging Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plans for a major land reclamation in front of Westview Park were approved during Thursday\u2019s meeting of the Gibraltar&#8217;s Development and Planning Commission (DPC).<\/strong><br \/>The project\u00a0was first announced by the Chief Minister\u00a0Fabian Picardo in his January 2025 New Year message.<br \/>\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t(() => {\n\t\t\t\tconst tryDisplay = () => {\n\t\t\t\t\tif (window.slotsRegistered) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(() => {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgoogletag.display(\"div-gpt-ad-inline_1\");\n\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsetTimeout(tryDisplay, 50);\n\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\ttryDisplay();\n\t\t\t})();\n\t\t<\/script> \t<br \/>It was\u00a0initially announced that\u00a0the cost of creating the land would be met by\u00a0TNG\u00a0Global Foundation\u00a0in exchange for part of the reclamation, but the\u00a0Chief Minister later confirmed\u00a0this was not finalized, and that the Government\u00a0might have to deliver the project itself.<br \/>According to local media, the project is set to create over 1,500 residential units.<br \/>The&nbsp;Development and Planning Commission has now approved&nbsp;the Government&#8217;s application for this reclamation &#8211; approximately 47,000 square metres in total, and expected to take 18 months to complete.<br \/>There were a number of objectors, with 15 individual submissions and one petition.<br \/>Share this article<br \/>Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox<br \/>Follow us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxQdzcySHRZbTVsMURUYjhGRTRkUm9sUThKdGxvcHZLZkZmblJlaDVQbWRPMXVtZDI5aENBV0d2SjNUcERMY2d5MkNNOFBLOWVSQko1dE5fU1I5bUk0Q1NuRnZoUEVXTlpCRE53RXBKb2tkcmZtR2UyR0hUdlhLSE5KZTdidVNIYkFxTmszS0RCSGZIUUpyZjR2bkt6SHhhRFZT?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for a major land reclamation in front of Westview Park were approved during Thursday\u2019s meeting of the Gibraltar&#8217;s Development and Planning Commission (DPC).The project\u00a0was first announced by the Chief Minister\u00a0Fabian Picardo in his January 2025 New Year message. It was\u00a0initially announced that\u00a0the cost of creating the land would be met by\u00a0TNG\u00a0Global Foundation\u00a0in exchange for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}