Sunday, 27th July 2008
Mepa and architects
Does being on a Malta Environment and Planning Authority board or committee allow you to have all the power you want?
So it would seem from the statistics presented by Flimkien ghall Ambient Ahjar during a recent court case against Mepa in Gozo.
Become an architect on one of the Mepa boards and the DCC committees will be at your side, overruling applications recommended for refusal. After all, what is at stake here is only our countryside, our architecture and the health of the people; what is being compromised here is only the moral and ethical obligations to the Maltese public. No wonder we're in such a mess!
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080724/local/asds
(Kindly post any comments regard THIS matter (Milner/Howard Street, Sliema) under the relevant link. Thank you.)
There are many other points one must highlight, especially when considering a possibility of reform at MEPA, which is long overdue and very urgently needed.
One point in question is that of a practising architect whose wife is a member of a DCC board. He should not be allowed to submit applications for development, especially in the category of building for which DCC board she is a member.
I firmly believe that it is time to have applications decided by members of the judiciary such as magistrates, with practising architects on hand only to clarify points related to the profession when needed, and to hold architects personally responsible for any infringements.