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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority Board approved the full development permission for the rehabilitation of the former Maghtab landfill.
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Following an agreement between the Management of MEPA, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the two unions representing the Authority’s employees, namely the Professional Workers' Union (UPAP) and the Union Haddiema Maghqudin (UHM), the industrial action at MEPA has been called off.
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During the month of February, the Malta Environment & Planning Authority (MEPA) decided 525 applications and received 400 new applications. The net pending caseload at the end of the month was 5,030.
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The process of bringing all existing installations in Malta in line with the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive of the EU has today been concluded following the approval of the MEPA board to grant an IPPC permit to Waste Oils Company Ltd. In the EU context these installations pose the greatest environmental risk -locally these consist of thirteen installations, which include the power stations and landfills.
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MEPA refers to the industrial action ordered by the Authority’s Professional Workers' Union, over redeployment of staff.
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority in reply to a statement issued earlier today by three environmental NGOs strongly denies that any new land rationalisation exercise is being carried out. The Authority is only processing Planning Control applications pertaining to the land that had got included in the 2006 rationalisation exercise that had been approved by Parliament.
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The Development Control Commission within MEPA today refused to grant a development permit for the construction of an apartment block with underlying garages in the Qala Valley better known as Wied tal-Marga.
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With the aim of promoting a better continuation of government public and community servicing and envisaged cost benefits through the re-organisation of existing public facilities, the Malta Environment and Planning Authority has published a number of proposed changes for the partial review of the Gozo and Comino Local Plan, that had been approved in 2006.
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During the month of January, the Malta Environment & Planning Authority (MEPA) decided 316 applications and received 382 new applications. The net pending caseload at the end of the month was 5,034.
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A large habitable ‘bunker’ which was illegally excavated and constructed adjacent to a large bird trapping site, in the limits of Rabat, was demolished by the direct action team of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority Board today agreed in principle, through the granting of an outline development permit, that the proposed development of a 144MW extension to the Delimara Power station will be permitted on the designated site.
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Works on the extension of Terminal 1 at the Malta Freeport in Birzebbuga were today given the go ahead by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority Board. The Board, which in February 2009 had refused the application, reviewed its decision given that significant progress had been made by the operators of the Freeport to address environment operational concerns and adopt mitigation measures in the public interest.
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority Board approved the full development permission for the construction of a new multi-purpose complex at the Malta International Airport in Luqa.
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During the month of December, the Malta Environment & Planning Authority decided 326 applications and received 684 new applications. The net pending caseload at the end of the month was 4,901
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority can confirm that the details of planning application PA04434/09 for the proposed development of an acquaculture zone in the national territorial waters in South East of Malta had been published in a local newspaper on the 19th December 2009, according to the law.
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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority categorically denies the allegations made earlier today by Flimkien ghall-Ambjent Ahjar, Birdlife, Friends of the Earth, Malta Organic Agriculture Movement and Ramblers Association that one of its officials had mishandled or unethically accessed the Xaghra development application file of Ms Astrid Vella.
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