MEPA cuts backlog, fines developers

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) decided 477 applications and received 365 new applications last month, reducing its caseload to 4,572. MEPA also issued 16 contraventions to developers on sites that were breaching Construction Site...

The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) decided 477 applications and received 365 new applications last month, reducing its caseload to 4,572.

MEPA also issued 16 contraventions to developers on sites that were breaching Construction Site Management Regulations. The highest number of offences related to an absence of hoarding and screening around building sites and inappropriate dust emission control measures. These fines amounted to a total of €15,373.73. Inspectors also issued a total of 21 other contraventions, amounting to €1,222.83, to individuals that were found breaching the Littering Act.

During the same month, 127 Stop and Enforcement notices were issued, 100 in Malta and 27 in Gozo. The enforcement section within MEPA closed 53 cases, 33 in Malta and 20 in Gozo.

Seventeen other enforcement cases were sanctioned by a planning permit while another 29 cases were resolved by the owners’ decision to remove their illegal development and comply with the enforcement notice.

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