We recently read that Mepa had scheduled Wied il-Balluta as an Area of Ecological Importance. It is indeed good news that this 44,000 square metre site will now be a protected green ecological area and a lung of clean air in the heavily built-up area.

Mepa should now schedule another ecological area in St Julian’s, namely the land at Portomaso, which was identified as an ecological area in the original permit for the whole Portomaso development and which was protected when the construction work was going on.

By also declaring these 11,000 square metres as an Area of Ecological Importance, Mepa would ensure that the site would never be developed. This would, after all, be in line with the original permits for Portomaso, which included a condition that no new developments or extensions are permissible.

Peter Richards

KENT

ENGLAND