Polidano clearing illegal storage

Construction tycoons Charles and Paul Polidano have been clearing part of an illegal depot they had built at the back of their headquarters in Ħal Farruġ, The Sunday Times has learnt. Earlier in the week, trucks and bulldozers were back at the site that has seen repeated illegal development over the past years. However, a spokesman for the Malta Environment and Planning Authority said the work is in line with instructions laid out in several enforcement notices slapped on the developers over the years. This latest development comes after The Sunday Times revealed last month that Charles Polidano, known as iċ-Ċaqnu, and his brother Paul, had yet again defied Mepa’s stop notices and resumed with illegal construction on the site a few days before the general election. Just four months earlier, the authority had stopped illegal works on two huge outdoor storage depots that were developed by dumping hundreds of tons of rubble on to the fields behind the company’s main building and building of a concrete warehouse, over hundreds of square metres of land. The pattern of illegal works follows a practice adopted successfully by the developers over the past 20 years or so, through which...