Portomaso is a success and surely the developers have benefited from it, and rightly so, but that does not mean they can do what they please.

Have they not already built eight extra floors over that allowed on Spinola Road in their latest block 31? Have they not also taken over part of the road by building this same block? Now we know they even have boathouses in the marina without permits and with an enforcement order on them. What’s next? Will they try to build on the roundabouts?

Maybe Portomaso residents can afford to move out, but what about those of us who live in the vicinity? Have we not suffered enough?

The Mepa board must be congratulated for refusing the permit for the new proposed development of apartments on seven tumoli of protected land, kept green in the original permits, in front of the scheduled fortifications built by the Knights 250 years ago. Mario de Marco’s Mepa reform is bearing fruit in the interest of the public.