Polidano withdraws request for MEPA injunction
Construction developer Charles Polidano withdraws request for a warrant of prohibitory injunction against MEPA over direct action at the company’s Hal Farrug site
3 December 2013, 12:00am
Chris Mangion
Chris Mangion
1 min read
Charles Polidano (right)
A request for a warrant of prohibitory injunction filed by Polidano Bros Ltd against MEPA last Thursday calling for the cessation of direct action at the company's Hal Farrug site was withdrawn today.
Mr Justice Silvio Meli temporarily upheld the warrant and stopped the MEPA action in its tracks. The judge had also ordered Polidano Bros Ltd not to carry further development works at the Montekristo Estate, where the action was to be carried out, prior to the court deciding on the warrant.
Since 1996, MEPA has issued various and repeated enforcement notices over 64,000 square metres of Polidano's developed site in Hal Farrug. Last September the authority proceeded to take legal action in which Polidano incurred over €20,000 in daily fines for breaching the enforcement notices.
On Friday last week, Polidano gave MEPA reason to believe he would withdraw the request after MEPA said it would "not budge" from its position against the illegalities committed by Polidano Bros Ltd. MEPA said that if Polidano were to withdraw the prohibitory injunction, then he would have to present MEPA with "a programme" detailing the number of illegalities on his site, how he plans on removing them and the timeframe in which he would be removing them.
Chris Mangion is MaltaToday’s photojournalist, joining the newspaper in 2013.
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so what is your whole point Mr. still worried? Are you implying that just because he employs 600 people he 's above the law?? That is why this country is in this sorry state..We have to realize SOONER or LATER that the environment's state is MORE important than money!! Priorities! Besides Caqnu can still work LEGALLY from other sites!
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All this fuss because he developed in Hal Farrug on his land.This man employs over 600 people,and always try to do more.Mepa should have started from Armier.And that's a prime site not like Hal Farrug near that ugly hanger.
