Most of that extra 60sqm were imposed by MEPA to build a cistern

Actually The Malta Independent of a couple of days ago will give you the answer for this case. The permit was for 150sqm as opposed to the 90sqm of the original building. I do not know about you but to me 60sqm is hardly ‘slightly bigger’.

It has everything to do with the environment. So much so, that the University of Malta boasts a Faculty for the Built Environment, because an environment can be natural or otherwise.

[Daphne – Exactly: the ‘built environment’, as distinct from the environment (greenhouse gases, global warming, groundwater, poisoned seas, overfishing, near-extinction of animals….). Astrid Vella and FAA are primarily concerned with issues of aesthetics, but in their ignorance they think of aesthetic issues as environmental issues. You can tell they grew out of Sliema, where ‘environmental’ concerns are really just concerns about aesthetics and the inconvenience caused to residents by developers. I haven’t yet heard a single environmental argument from FAA. So far, their biggest battles have been about whether we should have a museum beneath St John’s Square in Valletta and whether the new theatre should be open or closed. I can’t see anything environmental there, struggle as I might.]

Too one-dimensional in this case. Would make Gozo one of the most liberal places on earth.

[Daphne – It is.]

Twanny, just because the application was not made in Victor Scerri’s own name doesn’t mean that there was something wrong or that he had something to hide. You don’t use your name here – does it mean you’re doing anything wrong?

[Daphne – People who complain about official applications made ‘f’isem il-mara’, implying that they were trying to hide something because official stuff is always ‘f’isem ir-ragel’, are only revealing their backwoods-bunny attitude.]

mark attard: So what? What is the point you are trying to make? Are you suggesting that FAA picks and chooses which architect to attack on the basis of the number of applications he has? Are you suggesting that Cacopardo is more trustworthy because he has less clients?

In truth, my opinion of Musumeci took a nose dive when I read his initial reactions to this Bahrija saga but that has nothing to do with the number of applications.

My opinion of Cacopardo also took a nose dive when he published an internal report of the auditor prior to the March 2008 elections. In an effort to get himself elected he threw ethics out of the window.

I thought you might do that.

[Daphne – Maybe Musumeci has a busier practice. Mhux fier. Bring out the socialists to apportion business by ration card.]

Mark Attard thinks like the typical FAA nut. Where did he get the information that Joe Falzon never issued permits ODZ when he was DCC chairman? I am sure that if anyone took the trouble to check, he will find permits ODZ issued by Joe Falzon. Any volunteers? As for his second assertion, Joe Falzon was not subject to checks by an auditor because there was no auditor when he was DCC chairman.

FAA people first decide on the conclusion and then invent the “facts” to justify it. This is one of the reasons why in most issues they got involved, they mess up.