Thursday, 4th September 2008

Chairs, tables and planters removed from Sliema café

Enforcement officers in action in Sliema yesterday. Photo: Jason Borg

Enforcement officers struck again at the Sliema Strand yesterday afternoon, removing chairs, tables and planters at Costa Café after finding that permit conditions had been exceeded.

The enforcement officers also removed a 20-centimetre high platform the owner had built.

Neighbours had complained that access to their property had been hindered by the street furniture.

A spokesman for the parliamentary secretariat responsible for lands said this was the second time that the café was the subject of enforcement action. The first was on June 13.

Violation of the law will not be tolerated and such enforcement action would continue, the spokesman said.

Comments

E Borg (on 4/9/08)

Do Enforcement officers work in the morning only? Very often the tables and chairs expand sometimes double the size in the evenings. Who will check that?
Strong and firm enforcement measures and frequent spot checks will make life easier for the residents and teach our bar, cafe and shop owners that you can't have it all.

J Galea (on 4/9/08)

Well done to Enforcement officers.. please have a round in Floriana and Valletta as well. Once the owners have the permit they think they can do what they want.. Are street furniture, old chairs, notices and tables blocking parking spaces put in front of bars or shops legal? Once these obvious irregularities are repeated it means that there is something wrong with the type of enforcement if it was undertaken one.

Wardens please note that parking spaces should available (according to the law) for the cars and the above street furniture, plants or old chairs do not have a license to block parking spaces.

L Galea (on 4/9/08)

All furniture and any other items displayed outside shop of whatever nature should forthwith be seized and confiscated in favour of the Government and the shop owners fined the equivalent of the prices of the furniture and objects seized.

No permits should be given for any type of shop to put street furniture on the pavement.

Steve Attard (on 4/9/08)

Well done to the Enforcement officers !! but do they know where bugibba is?? There its not just the bars they need to check, even or more some of the sovenier shops that they occupy the whole pavement.

Rachel Attard (on 4/9/08)

When is action being taken to have a decent passage through the chairs on the pavement in the other part of the same street, namely between M. Dimech Street and St Agatha Street?

Ina Cassar (on 4/9/08)

Well done Enforcement Officers. How about having some of them here in Rabat. The square in front of the church is shambles. At the moment we are having works being done to it but just below the Civic Centre and in front of the police station are in a miserable state. I hope that once the works are done things will get better and people without permit to have chairs and tables outside their premises will be seen to.

A. Camilleri (on 4/9/08)

Well done. May I enquire whether a pub, like the Lady Di in Hughes Hallett Street, is permitted to have tables/chairs on the road! Because this has been going on for months, and no 'law enforcement' appears to have been applied in this case! If the permit is in order, then please arrange to have whatever number of tables/chairs safely placed on a pavement, if necessary widened to meet this requirement, as in other similar outlets all over the place (Bugibba etc.). Also, what about 'Champ' kiosk in the Fra Ben area in Qawra; extension seems to be 'no problem' there!

Charles Vella (on 4/9/08)

What about Rabat Malta. In front of the police station, a certain cafe has taken up not only the pavement but also continued the pavement out onto the road thus taking up a parking space to accomodate tables and chairs. Is that legal?

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