Polidano Group, owners of Montekristo Animal Park, said the company had submitted over 50 plans to the planning authority and paid close to €94,000 in fees to regularise its position.

Progress on regularising the infringements on site had become possible after the Labour Party was voted into power, according to the company.

It was reacting to a report in The Sunday Times of Malta that Polidano Group had not applied for a zoo licence and said that this would only be possible once structures on site without permits had been sanctioned.

The company said it had been working with the planning authority to meet planning conditions and remove some illegal structures on site. These were largely new developments being erected, also without planning permits.

Times of Malta was not in a position to verify the new plans submitted because information on the case found on Mepa’s website dated back to January 2013.

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