The Malta Environment and Planning Authority said yesterday that its Direct Action Team has opened access to a road in Juno Heights, Marsaxlokk, after the owner failed to comply with a permit condition.

It explained that the owner of a corner plot in this area had been given planning permission in 1986 to build his house. One of the permit conditions was that the owner had to form the street. Remains of a field wall existed where the road should have been formed in a projected road. An enforcement notice, ECF 344/99 was issued. Works had, at one point, been started, but for some reason had been stopped.

The Direct Action team opened up the road by removing the wall and levelling out the debris to provide adequate access to traffic.

All direct actions are carried out by Mepa and the costs billed to the non-compliant owners, the Mepa explained.