UPDATED: MEPA approval for James Piscopo’s three-storey bungalow

James Piscopo, Taghna Lkoll chairman of the Transport Authority, is building the world’s first three-storey bungalow.

He has at least one child – we know because his wife famously described on Facebook how he lost their expensive pushchair – and yet this three-storey bungalow only has one bedroom.

The other bedrooms, over a whole floor of this three-storey bungalow, are cunningly disguised as a ‘hobby room’ (peress li ghandu hafna u hafna hoppies), archives (peress li jaghmel hafna u hafna ricerka fuq dokumenti mill-passat) and stores (well, we all need one of those for hoarding old stuff).

As my architect friend has pointed out, any new-to-the-job employee at the MEPA should be able to flag that up immediately. Ah, but will they be able to?

Apparently not, because these plans have been granted approval.

The Transport Malta chief who’s aiming for planning permission for a three-storey bungalow with one bedroom, presumably because his child is going to sleep in the storeroom.