Watch: Workers send Villa St Ignatius structure crashing down

Updated at 11.30am with DLH reaction Workmen resumed demolition works at Villa St Ignatius in Balluta this morning, defying the Planning Authority which had stopped the works a few days ago. The demolition works began at 6.30am this morning, with men wearing no safety gear seen on the villa's roof, hacking away at a rickety wooden structure perched on the corner.  Workers chipped away at the structure, loosening it before sending it crashing down to the ground, two storeys below.  Last Saturday, Times of Malta reported that workmen on the historic building were hammering at the masonry and knocking entire bricks down to the ground. Residents who contacted the Planning Authority and police told Times of Malta that workers laid down their tools and left the building after being ordered to do so by a case officer - only to continue where they left off the moment the PA official left the area. Read: Destruction of Villa St Ignatius shows anarchy looming - PD Villa St Ignatius in Scicluna Street, St Julian’s, forms part of a larger property which once housed the first Jesuit College in Malta. The front of the old college is already scheduled, but no such protection has been extended...