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MEPA halts work at Polidano’s site in Hal Farrug
MEPA representatives to meet Polidano Group and discuss other pending planning applications.
18 March 2013, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
Charles Polidano.
Development works which were being carried out without planning permission at a site in the area of Hal Farrug, adjacent to PoliGas Ltd, have been stopped the Malta Environment and Planning Authority said today.
The news comes just hours after Prime Minister Joseph Muscat declared that no illegal development will be tolerated and enforcement by MEPA on illegal structures will be carried out.
The PM was referring to news reports that construction firm Polidano Bros had resumed an illegal development at the Hal Farrug headquarters six months after police were asked to take action over environmental abuse.
In a statement, the authority said that its enforcement officers noticed that works resumed on a site which a few months ago had been sealed off with concrete blocks. These blocks had been removed after the developer requested permission from the authority to remove some of the plant machinery from on the site.
MEPA warned the developer that should any illegal works resume on site, the place will once again be sealed off with concrete blocks, resulting in disruptions to the operation of his other permitted development.
"In the coming days, the Authority will be meeting with representatives of Polidano Group to address this case and discuss other pending planning applications," a spokesman for MEPA said.
In September 2012, following several warnings, the authority requested the Police to initiate criminal action against the developer for abusively carrying out a series of developments within the Hal Farrug area without the necessary planning permits.
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Once again. Is this another MEPA show or is this for real? Is MEPA going to be allowed to do their job and bulldoze those illegal buildings? We have heard a lot of these same warnings before and MEPA hightails it out of there because a sympathizer magistrate or judge rules in favor of the guilty party and orders MEPA to back off. ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL no matter where, I hope the Government knows that. Let us see what kind of Leader we have elected. In the next few months we will find out if PM Joseph Muscat can keep his word and mean what he says. He did the talk, now can he do the walk? This PM has a lot on his plate right now and most of it entails corruption and misleading? Can this new and young PM stand up to the corruption that we live in and bring Malta to the front like he promised? Talk is cheap but the walk is hard. Can PM Joseph Muscat clean up the mess that was left behind by the old regime? Can PM Joseph Muscat put a Parliament together that will make Malta proud and not embarrass us like the last one did? Harsh words? YES, so let us wait and see.
