Pembroke residents to have access to homes ‘by next week’

The 30 families forced to get to their apartments through garages in recent weeks should have direct access to their homes by next week, the government has confirmed. According to a spokeswoman for the Family and Social Solidarity Ministry, which is responsible for the Housing Authority, the contractor assigned to carry out works at the Pembroke complex has been instructed to lay a concrete pavement so that the residents can “access the main doors of the two blocks without having to pass through the garage driveway or through the wet area”. Times of Malta reported on Friday that more than 30 families living in apartments in a complex in Pembroke, close to the ITS, have been forced to enter their homes through garages after extensive flooding in the common parts made it impossible for them use the main doors. Read: Entry to 30 homes in Pembroke blocked after works stopped abruptly According to the ministry spokeswoman, the contractor assigned to carry out the works laid soft stone chippings earlier this month, with the intention of casting concrete paving on February 12. However, due to the storm that hit the country between February 9 and 11, the chippings “got waterlogged and...