Mepa meetings resume on Tuesday

All public meetings of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority board and the Development Control Commissions will resume as from Tuesday, the Principal Permanent Secretary, Godwin Grima, said yesterday.

The sittings of the Planning Appeals Board will resume this week.

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, who assumed responsibility for Mepa in the aftermath of the general election, froze Mepa's decision-making process on March 12 "until further notice". A spokesman for the Office of the Prime Minister had told The Times the decision was made by Dr Gonzi as a first step in Mepa's reform which was one of the Nationalist Party's electoral pledges.