Vehicles in De Valette Square - Wardens told not to book them, mayor says no permits issued

Vehicles are regularly parking without being penalised in Valletta’s De Valette Square, despite the local council insisting it has not issued any parking permits for the pedestrianised square. 

Local wardens who spoke to Times of Malta said the parked vehicles all displayed permits allowing them to park in the square, and that they had received specific instructions from their superiors not to book any vehicles displaying such permits.

They added that the owners of some of the vehicles had also verbally cited the local council’s authority to park there. 

Valletta mayor Alexei Dingli, however, said the local council had not issued any parking permits for De Valette Square, and that, although a number of requests had been received, all had been refused by the council.  

De Valette Square was inaugurated in 2012 as the first phase of the City Gate project, and is to serve as the entrance of the new National Museum of Fine Arts by 2018.

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