The planning authority has fined owners of illegal billboards €400 each for ignoring the June 20 deadline for their removal.

The figure falls far short of what billboard owners charge clients for a month’s advertising.

Fines issued for illegal billboards taken down by Mepa’s direct action amount to €10,800. This covers the removal of 27 billboards from prominent sites in Aldo Moro Road in Marsa, Mikiel Anton Vassalli Street in St Julian’s, Burmarrad Road in St Paul’s Bay and the Coast Road, the planning authority said.

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