Mepa officers show they mean business
A number of illegal buildings around Malta have been demolished by the planning authority enforcement unit over the last few weeks.
In Wardija, the Malta Environment and Planning Authority removed an illegal boundary wall, a racing track and “substantial amounts” of dumped construction rubble and waste, clearing stretches of garigue.
Once enforcement officers started clearing the site, the owner agreed to remove all the remaining material, Mepa said.
Action was also carried out in sites where dumping or structures were causing an inconvenience to residents.
These operations were carried out just days before a new law comes into force removing the possibility of regularising illegal development – built after May 2008 – in scheduled or protected areas.
In another operation, enforcement officers removed a structure probably intended as a boathouse in Daħlet Qorrot Bay, Qala (photo).
Also, the planning authority sealed off entrances to a site in a valley between Rabat and Mtarfa where illegal material had been dumped.
Acting on complaints by the Birżebbuġa local council, enforcement officers cleared a large site Il-Qajjenza Street which for a number of years had been left abandoned and where large quantities of construction waste was illegally dumped.
Two big garages illegally used for commercial purposes were closed off in Birkirkara and Żebbuġ. Enforcement officers walled off part of the entrance to the Birkirkara garage so that only cars and not commercial vehicles could be parked inside while in Żebbuġ they sealed off the electrical supply of a garage that was illegally used as storage and cold room by a nearby confectioner.
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R.Borg
Dec 22nd 2010, 10:33
Mepa officers show they mean business!!!
BUT NOT ALWAYS!!!
When will they take serious action in Sir Luigi Preziosi Street-Floriana where trucks, containers and other heavy vehicles are parked there illegally-day and night-by three different individuals who live in the vicinity?
Bloggers will eventually know when the authorities mean business: WHEN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT OCCURS!!!
Mind my words.
C. Farrugia
Dec 22nd 2010, 07:29
How about the "villas" freshly built at Delimara on the coastline North of the lighthouse. The area is like a massive building site.
l fenech
Dec 22nd 2010, 06:00
MEPA ghax ma tmorrux taraw il-bennejja iqattu il-bricks bis circular saw il-gurnata kollha u jimlew lil-kulhadd bit trab gris u jigu u jaqghu u jqumu lil-fejn qed jonfoh ir-rih u hullimkien trab tas siment. Dan m'hemmx ligi kontra taghha.
Anthony A. Mifsud
Dec 22nd 2010, 04:46
Is that a MEPA hard hat? where are the HS&E officers?
Farsa ohra
D Camilleri
Dec 21st 2010, 20:28
Now Armier...........
S.Jones Wales
Dec 21st 2010, 14:24
Thats a good start now focus on your crappy old bangers blowing more poison into the air than Saddam,and while you're at it repair your famous Pot Holes. Have a nice crack down and a safety new year.
Joseph Abela
Dec 21st 2010, 09:19
Illegal works SEEM to be taking place, one minute's walk away from the Tal-Maqluba Chapel in Qrendi. A bulldozer is working away at the soil there, to the detriment of a couple of carob trees adjacent to it. MEPA officials would do well to check this out. No certificate of permission is hanging anywhere in the vicinity. The field is exactly opposite the Fireworks factory there.