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I have written to the Sliema Local Council and its mayor Albet Bonello Dupuis to draw his attention to the illegal opening of a door to the Plevna Hotel Bar in Locker Street, Sliema.
Mayor Bonello DuPuis replied that MEPA’s enforcement officer was notified.
However the enforcement officer does not seem to have followed up the case as the hotel has now put a sandwich board outside the illegal door on the pavement advertising a wine bar.
This situation is intolerable and I am very disappointed by the lack of results of the mayor’s intervention, even more so by the lack of follow-up.
The hotel has blatantly broken the law, MEPA has blatantly avoided taking action, and we are now faced with a ‘fait accompli’.
No doubt the situation will soon be regularised by the payment of the appropriate fine, legalising the opening of a bar, without having to obtain residents’ approval.
If it is not possible to keep a small four star hotel from bulldozing it’s way through regulations, how do you expect us to believe that MEPA and the Local Council will prevent the contractor of the Qui-si-sana car park from the same sort of abuse when both have given their thumbs up to the controversial project?
This selective, tacit condoning of abuse has become a hallmark of the current administration. Local Councils were introduced specifically to prevent these sort of antics, however it seems to me that hands have been tied.
Simon Camilleri
Qui-si-sana
Sliema
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