The government is stalling a new by-law drafted by the Naxxar local council to stop caravans and camper vans from parking permanently along the coast. Mayor Anne Marie Muscat Fenech Adami told Times of Malta the council prepared the by-law but the Local Government Ministry, headed by José Herrera, was delaying the process, by, among others, asking the council for an impact assessment of the new rules. “The council is very concerned about the issue of the caravans along the coast,” the mayor said. “We cannot do anything about the ones in the boathouse area behind Splash and Fun because the government has regularised them but we are finding great difficulties to issue new rules to stop caravans and campers from spending all summer along the Coast Road,” Muscat Fenech Adami added. She said that over the years, the council had been insisting with the authorities to take action but hardly found any cooperation or support. Questions sent to minister Herrera were not answered. In April, Times of Malta reported how caravans had started “hogging” a public car park in Għallis, on the Coast Road. The invasion of caravans has become an annual sight near beaches such as Ta’ Fra Ben in...