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The Planning Authority has confirmed that it will no longer be insisting on enforcement action against the asphalting of an ‘illegal’ road in an environmentally sensitive area in Wied Qirda, limits of Siġġiewi, as it has now decided to lift the enforcemNo more enforcement action on Siġġiewi ‘illegal’ road... after 12 years
The Planning Authority has confirmed that it will no longer be insisting on enforcement action against the asphalting of an ‘illegal’ road in an environmentally sensitive area in Wied Qirda, limits of Siġġiewi, as it has now decided to lift the enforcement notice it issued 12 years ago. The planning regulator, which in 2007 issued an enforcement notice “for the deposit and levelling of concrete in a valley without permit”, has now reversed its decision. Asked to explain how something which was illegal in 2007 and was left for “pending direct action” by the authorities for such a long time suddenly became legal, a PA spokesman said: “The access existed prior to 1968 therefore it is committed and not illegal. “Consequently, no action can be taken against the resurfacing of an existing access and so the enforcement notice has been withdrawn,” the spokesman said. It is not yet known why it took the authority 12 years to lift its enforcement notice and why the ‘sudden’ change of heart. The latest decision taken by the PA on this ‘illegality’ arrived after the Times of Malta asked the authority for an update on the unlawful tarmacking by Transport Malta of the illegal stretch of the... Read more