During the month of May, the Malta Environment & Planning Authority (MEPA) decided 328 applications and received 554 new applications. The net pending caseload at the end of the month was 4,833.
Last month, the Authority processed 73 notifications of development, which, according to the Development Notification Order 2007, do not require a formal application.
In May 2009, MEPA issued 12 contraventions to developers on sites that were breaching Construction Site Management Regulations. These contraventions were related to the lack of hoarding and screening around building sites and not affixing of notice board on-site. These fines amounted to a total of €2,795.16. Inspectors also issued a total of 31 other contraventions, amounting to €11,006.15, to individuals that were found breaching the Littering Act. In this case fines were mainly issued for the illegal depositing of refuse near public skips.
During the same month, 83 Stop and Enforcement notices were issued, 63 in Malta and 20 in Gozo. The enforcement section within MEPA closed 110 cases, 87 in Malta and 23 in Gozo. 30 other enforcement cases were sanctioned by a planning permit while another 75 cases were resolved by the owners’ decision to remove their illegal development and comply with the enforcement notice.
1 Comment To "MEPA net pending caseload now 4,833"
#1 Comment By Paul Borg On June 9, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
It would be interesting to know how many out of development zone applications MEPA has issued recently. These are the things they don’t tell us!