Losing face

Astrid Vella

Jun 18th 2011, 21:20

The answer is that neither MEPA nor ANYONE else is taking responsibility for monitoring safety at the moment.

MEPA is protected by the fact that while its remit extends to design and size of rooms etc. safety was not important enough to be legally included in its responsibilities. The problem is that it's no one else's responsibility as OHSA is not brought into the picture either when permits which are blatantly unsafe.

FAA, our heritage and environment group has been battling a case of a developer who applied to add FIVE stories onto a 200-year old house which is already structurally unsound! Every time we mention safety we get told off and are told that if the residents in the old house have a problem, they can take it to court! Fortunately there were other grounds for its refusal, or we would have been reading of another collapse in Sliema soon. Then the inheritors could get consolation from the death of their loved ones in court.

Ms Maria Vassallo

Jun 18th 2011, 20:48

Viva l-flus!
Viva l-kilba ghalihom!
Viva l-apartamenti godda u qodma vojta!
Min jaf Malta ssirx tixbah lill-kroll ekonomiku li gara gewwa l-Irlanda?

E. Azzopardi

Jun 18th 2011, 20:30

Doesn't anybody responsible, who gives out the permits, check that things are done properly. This is not the first time that this happened. And we never learn. And make laws and reform after reform and things remain the same. Going around and seeing the construction sites, the MEPA reform seems a complete flop.

Stephen Koludrovic

Jun 18th 2011, 12:35

Just another end of the week episode of ONLY IN MALTA saga.

Stay tuned for next week's episode. brought to you by Gianni the builder Ltd.

riccardo borg

Jun 18th 2011, 11:36

Din x'ghandha x'taqsam mal-MEPA?

Dan mhux ghajr armar hazin minn naha tal-haddiema. Kienet xorti tajba li ma korra jew gie maqtul xi hadd b'dan it-tip ta' traskuragni.

Nisperaw li min hu responsabbli jigi kastigat halli darba ohra joqghod aktar attent ghall-hajja u s-sahha tan-nies.

Phil Humphries

Jun 18th 2011, 11:25

"... the accident might have happened because the scaffolding was being supported in part by the façade."

Isn't that like sawing-off the branch you are sitting on ? - That said, I hope no-one was hurt.

Ms Rose Cilia

Jun 18th 2011, 11:15

Dik serjeta! L-aqwa li johorgu l- permessi ghall bini ta' izjed flats il- MEPA minn hekk biss jimportaha.