MEPA Quo Vadis II

The site plan: the red lines are the boundaries of the land owned by the applicant, the black lines the existing building

This is the existing building plan as it stands in shell form

Recently, I have written about the proposed construction of a winery in Bidnija, stating that MEPA was not acting according their own regulations, delivering building permits where they never should. Here is another case, where one can wonder why MEPA exist in the first place. Today the notification for the building of a farmhouse has been displayed on the location. The permit application is PA/2029/13, which is based on the renewal of permit PA 763/01. PA 763/01 has been initially refused, but the appeals board overturned the decision. Unfortunately there is no documentation available on the MEPA server in order to understand the decision of the overturning.

Photo of the shell form of the farmhouse

The existing built up area is strictly regulated in the approved Local Plan for Central Malra with specific policies regulating the type and extent of development which can take place specifically in Triq il-Milord, Bidnija which is mentioned specifically in the Local Plan.
Triq il-Milord forms part of a rural settlement and is regulated by Policy CG04 of the Central Malta Local Plan.

Furthermore, the applicant has already built the proposed farmhouse in shell despite having no permit in hand!

MEP never enforced the demolition of the illegal construction in this odz.

If the applicant gets his permit delivered, this will certainly open for more similar applications and making the “ODZ” superfluous.

I am asking you, dear reader, to submit a representation on the MEPA site to object to the permit.