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MEPA reform: DCC chairmen reappointed as board members
New full-time DCC boards to be installed by end of November.
10 November 2010, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
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The current chairpersons of MEPA’s development control commissions, Claude Borg and Elizabeth Ellul, have been reappointed to the two DCC boards but as members of the board.
Sandra Magro, an architect at the Housing Authority and member of the Building Industry Consultative Council, is one of the new chairpersons.
The new boards are composed of five members instead of the present seven. Among the new members are university lecturer and architect Franco Montesin; Anthony Ellul, formerly of the MEPA planning directorate; and Fleur Ebejer, also of the MEPA planning directorate.
As full-time positions, the new members would be asked to resign their present positions.
The appeals boards currently chaired by lawyers Ian Spiter Baily and Robert Tufigno have been dissolved, with a tribunal to be set up instead, presided by a lawyer.
The 10 members sitting on the environment and planning commissions will replace the DCCs. The chairmen have also been appointed deputy chairmen on the board of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.
The newly composed Mepa board is made up of Austin Walker, chairman; Sandra Magro and Franco Montesin, deputy chairmen; and Judge Giovanni Bonello, Charles Bonnici, Chiara Borg, Elena Borg Costanzi, Joseph Farrugia, Philip Manduca, Christine Pace and Joseph Vella. The two MPs sitting on the board are Joe Falzon (PN) and Roderick Galdes (PL).
