Mr Justice Raymond C Pace today heard verbal submissions in an appeal lodged after Mepa refused to issue a permit of an application for the construction of a bus depot on land in Zebbug, for use by Arriva buses.
Last year Raymond Fenech on behalf of Arriva, applied to MEPA for a permit to build the bus depot including bus parking facilities, a bus maintenance shed and a bus washing facility with underground reservoirs on land in Zebbug.
The land was outside a development zone (ODZ).
The Mepa board had refused the permit on the basis that the site was ODZ.
Mr Fenech then appealed to the Mepa Appeals Board but the application was also dismissed and the Mepa board's decision was upheld.
Mr Fenech then took the case before the Court of Appeal on the basis that the decision was based on considerations which had not been raised previously and which had not been debated by either board.
Mr Fenech submitted that his right to a fair hearing was violated as the Appeals Board had not given him the opportunity to make his case on issues which thatboard had raised only in its decision.
On its part Mepa submitted that the...
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