Transport Malta To Take Action On Illegal Billboards Cropping Up Around The Island
Transport Malta has said that it will be taking action in relation to several small billboards that have cropped up across Malta and Gozo in recent weeks.
Images of the billboards sent to Lovin Malta show the billboards placed along several main roads in the country.
Last year, Lovin Malta had reported that similar billboards had been similarly placed at strategic locations around Malta despite not having been granted permission for them.
The billboards were erected by DK Advertising, with its CEO Daniel Orsini telling Lovin Malta that they were not illegal and had been approved by Transport Malta.
He referred this website to regulations, issued by Transport Malta on ‘Vehicle and pedestrian protective measures and other furniture’ on the basis of which Orsini claimed that the billboards were legal.
The document actually states that any applicant “will remain responsible to obtain any other necessary permit, authorisation, or license as required at law from other authorities such as the Planning Authority, the Lands Authority, and others as the law may require”.
The guidelines also require such equipment to be limited to spaces where there is a “real necessity for them” and that any advertising material is “integrated within other useful structures”.
While the Planning Authority did not reply to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Transport Malta said there was no permit in place for the billboards.
“Transport Malta has not issued any permits for the said billboards. The Authority will look into the matter and will take the necessary action,” the spokesperson said.
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