The Marsascala Family Park will reopen on Tuesday, three months after it was controversially shut down over “safety concerns”.

Environment Minister Leo Brincat said the health and safety “shortcomings” at the park had been addressed.

The family park was closed following experts’ advice that a fault in the adjacent recycling plant had prompted Wasteserv to burn acidic gases. But the Nationalist Party had said the readings from the air monitoring station had showed that air quality at the park was fine and therefore there was no reason for its closure. The park was only opened last February.

Speaking on One Radio yesterday, Mr Brincat said a Family Park Management Unit was set up to take over the responsibility of the park administration. It would also be drawing up a plan for the park’s management and maintenance.

Mr Brincat said that real time air monitoring, carried out for the first time since the park was opened, ensured that the emissions from the nearby Waste Recycling Plant were within EU established levels.

The minister also said that funds which the Majjistral park’s administration had been denied since 2011 were to be granted.

The implementation of this park’s management plan would be scrutinised to create space for new activities which had been planned for a long time but which could not be implemented due to lack of funds. These included a visitors’ centre.

Mr Brincat said the Government had passed on nearly €112,000 to the Heritage Parks Federation, which had been due for 2011 and 2012.