Seven environment officers are monitoring works on the set for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s film at Mġarr ix-Xini, according to the planning authority.

The officers form part of a monitoring team that is operating on a roster basis to ensure works are in line with planning conditions imposed on the producers to protect the environmentally sensitive location.

A Mepa spokesman explained that the film set will consist mainly of free-standing scaffolding and timber structures that will use “non-invasive techniques” to place them on site.

“Complete reversibility of all interventions, and the complete removal of all props and sets at the end of the filming period, is one of the conditions of the permits issued by Mepa, and these conditions are assured against hefty bank guarantees,” the spokesman said.

Filming will start at the end of August when the popular bay and creek will be closed to the public until mid-October.

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