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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 News 9 COURT NOTICE The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall of the Civil Court ordered the sale by Judicial Auction of the following property to be held in the corridors of the Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta . Date and Time Judicial Sale No Property 1st October, 2015 77/13 - 10.30am PP Apartment internally marked number three (3), on the second floor/third storey above road level including its overlying air space forming part of Block of Apartments named 'Anvil Apartments', numbered four (4), in Triq il- Minfa!, Naxxar, free and unencumbered together with its share of the common parts of the external staircase leading to the block, the door, the entrance, the entrance hall, the stairs and the stair well from basement level up to the roof, lift and lift shaft and water and drainage system which property is valued one hundred and ninety thousand Euros ("190,000). Six Garages in the basement under the block of apartments named 'Anvil Apartments', numbered four (4), in Triq il- Minfa!, Naxxar internally marked; Garage number two (2) of approx 73.47 meters squared valued forty five thousand Euros (" 45,000). Garage number three (3) of approx 13.71 meters squared valued twenty three thousand Euros (" 23,000). Garage number four (4) of approx 13.80 meters squared valued twenty three thousand Euros (" 23,000). Garage number five (5), of approx 11.78 meters squared valued twenty thousand Euros (" 20,000). Garage number six (6) of approx 15.74 meters squared valued twenty five thousand Euros (" 25,000). Included in this sale is the undivided share of 1/7 for each garage being sold of the ramp common to all garages together with the undivided share of the car lift, its shaft and of the access to the car lift from the said ramp, of the front garden leading to the door of the basement garages, and the undivided share of the stairs leading to the basement garages. The access to the carlift is from a ramp common with others from the front garden infront of the basement garages' door. With every garage underlaying the Block of Apartments known as, 4, 'Anvil Apartments' in Triq il- Minfah, Naxxar is included an undivided share of one from seven (1/7) of the common parts in the basement that provide access from the carlift to every garage. 1st October, 2015 24/14 - 11.00am JGL The portion of land in an unnamed road which abuts onto Triq San Blas in Nadur, Gozo having an area of five hundred and ninety metres squared (590) bounded on the east by the said Triq San Blas and on the north by property of Mario and Edwin brothers Muscat or their successors in title, free and unencumbered with all its right and appurtenances three hundred and fifty thousand Euro ("350,000). The portion of land forming part of the lands name 'Ta' Wied Bin#emma' in the limits of Nadur Gozo having an area of ten thousand and six hundred metres squared (10,600) bounded on the west east by a unnamed road, on the south and on the north west by property of Mario and Edwin brothers Muscat or their successors in title, or more accurate boundaries, free and unencumbered with all its right and appurtenances valued at one hundred and thirty five thousand Euro ("135,000). The portion of land forming part of the lands name 'Ta' Wied Bin#emma' in the limits of Nadur Gozo having an area of seven thousand eight hundred and fifty metres squared (7,850) bounded on the east by property of Mario and Edwin brothers Muscat or their successors in title, on the south by a passageway and on the east by another passageway, or more accurate boundaries, free and unencumbered with all its right and appurtenances valued at sixty five thousand Euro ("65,000). 6th October, 2015 35/14 - 11.00am EGL The farm known as 'Tal-Busuf' that today bears the name 'Razzett $niena Divina', with no number, in Triq it-Torri ta' L-Ghallies, l-G!allies limits of Naxxar together with the land annexed of approximately of two thousand four hundred and ninety three point seventy five square metres (2,493.75mk), free and unencumbered with all its rights and appurtenances valued at five hundred and fifty thousand Euro ("550,000). The house number fifty one (51), in Triq il-Kbira, $as- Sajjied, Birkirkara in a corner with Alley number one (1), Triq $as-Sajjied, free and unencumbered with all its right and appurtenances valued at ninety thousand Euro ("90,000). The house named 'Cadeau' and the garage in Triq Dun Amabile Sisner, Pembroke subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of two hundred and sixteen Euro and sixty nine cents ("216.69) valued at three hundred and forty five thousand six hundred and sixty six Euro ("345,666.00). 6th October, 2015 9/15 - 12.00pm JGL Garage unnamed and unumbered underlying a maisonette numbered twenty five (25) in Triq il- G!ajn,Swieqi and accesible from a ramp in the front garden subject to a annual and perpetual rent of twenty seven Euros and ninety five cents only ("27.95) free and unencumbered with all its rights and appurtanances bordering Southwest with the mentioned street and from Northwest with property of Joseph and Sandra Cassar or their successors in title of the company named Estates Developments Limited. In the garage there are drainage pipes of the overlayed propertiesThe garage amounts to twenty nine point five metres squared (29.5m 2 ) and is situated in a development zone known as tas-Sieqi.The property is valued at twenty thousand Euros ("20,000) 8th October, 2015 41/13 - 11.00am PP Elevated Ground floor Maisonette without airspace, named 'Rose House' and underlaying garage in Triq Mimosa, in Gwardamangia, Hamrun, The property is free and unencumbered valued at one hundred and ten thousand Euros ("110,000). 8th October, 2015 47/14 - 11.30am PP Apartament officially numbered two (2) on the first floor in a block of apartments numbered thirty five (35) named 'Falcon Forge', subject to an annual ground rent of thirty Euros and fifty four cents only ("30.54) accesible from Triq It- Torri), Msida. The tenement includes an undivided share of the common parts that provide access to the appartments that is the door, entrance, stairs and lift. The property includes the right to hold a water tank on the roof of the same block valued at Two Hundred and twenty thousand Euros (" 220,000). 13th October, 2015 33/14 - 12.00pm EM The tenement official numbered eighty four (84) known as numbered sixty three (63), in Triq Santa Marija, Gudja, including the relative airspace of the said property, subject to the active and passive servitudes resulting from its relative position the rest is free and unencumbered with all its rights and appurtenances, also subject to annual ground rent of one Maltese Lira (Lm1.00) equivalent to two euro and thirty three Euro cents ("2.33) valued at eighty five thousand euro ("85,000). Further details can be obtained from the website: http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/courtservices/JudicialSales/search.aspx The bidders taking part in the auction must present their identity card. Rudolph Marmara' For the Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals Posh Mellieha valley can't take its own stink Santa Marija 'garden' estate's sewage system no longer can handle the over- development prompted by MEPA's relaxation of policies, JAMES DEBONO finds out THE unbearable stench of sewage that is riling residents at the Santa Marija estate in Mellieha's Zejtuna valley, has now become a fixture of the area: five months of inaction from the authorities which is turning into a health risk for residents. The Santa Marija residents' as- sociation's chairman, Sammy Vella, is a former mayor of Mellieha and lectures in agro-science. He says the blame for the sewage leaks is down to planning policies, and that the leaks are threatening the valley's ecosys- tem, home to the rare freshwater crab and painted frog. MaltaToday confirmed reports from residents of the sewage trickling from a plastic pipe going down the Zejtuna valley and straight into the sea. It is an incredible stench, made worse by the still summer air. The residents' association reported the leak to the Mellieha council in April, which complaint was sent to the Environmental Health Directo- rate, which later held an on-site in- spection. But while the council was told that the Environmental Health Directo- rate would be contacting the prop- erty owners responsible and face them with legal steps if no action is taken, questions sent by MaltaToday over what steps were taken were still unanswered by the time of going to print. "It is inexplicable and unacceptable that five months later, sewage is still flowing from the plastic pipe into the valley," Sammy Vela said. "We have been denouncing these illegal plastic pipes since 2009, and MEPA itself is- sued an enforcement order against this illegality a year later." But Vella says he wants the authori- ties to really address the root of the problem. "It can partly be solved if the prop- erty owners invest in communal cesspits, which can be periodically emptied into the main sewage sys- tem. Ultimately, the overall problem is caused by over-development," Vella says. He recounts that originally Santa Marija estate was planned as a gar- den estate where only fully detached bungalows, consisting of one habit- able floor and one non-habitable basement, were allowed. "I objected to the original brief is- sued in the 1960s as I would have preferred the valley to remain unde- veloped. But the brief also had ben- efits, because by stipulating that only 20% of the footprint of each bunga- low site could be developed and that a minimum 30% had to be reserved for soft landscaping, it created an opportunity for afforestation," Vella said. This was changed when in 2005, MEPA introduced a so-called "re- laxation clause" through which two semi-detached villas can be permit- ted on the same footprint previously occupied by a single bungalow, as long as the building looked like a sin- gle dwelling. Moreover, MEPA was creative in interpreting this policy: it allowed multi-storey blocks which have one storey on one side, and an additional number of storeys on the other side thanks to the downward sloping ter- rain of the valley. This policy resulted in an increase in density and more paved areas and roofing, and further increased the burden on the infrastructure, now resulting in sewage overflows. The paved areas themselves means that more rainwater is left uncollected, and ends up clogging the sewage in- frastructure. "The infrastructure has remained the same as before and it simply does not cater for the increase in popu- lation and building density," Vella says. The situation at Santa Marija es- tate was aggravated by a permit for the construction of a conglomera- tion of 12 bungalows straddling the watercourse of the valley, in so do- ing blocking the flow of storm-water and rendering it impossible for these houses to access the sewage network already in place. Their solution to this predicament was to lay new unauthorised and il- legal sewage and storm-water pipes along watercourse bed, which even- tually triggered off repeated sewage leaks. "The problem is that MEPA con- tinues to issue permits in this area without taking in consideration the impact on the infrastructure, on traf- fic and parking dynamics, and on the character of the residential amenity. This goes directly against MEPA's own Structure Plan…. We have been consistently pointing this out for the past years whenever we submit rep- resentations on individual applica- tions in Santa Marija estate. " Vella welcomes the fact that MEPA intends to change its policy again, by re-designating Santa Marija Estate as a place reserved for fully detached bungalows, a proposal in the new Policy and Design Guidelines issued in 2014. The policy has yet to be ap- proved. But even this bit of positive news has had the undesirable consequence of an increase in applications by owners who want to exploit the re- laxation clause before it is removed. "Unfortunately even when MEPA has good intentions, these are under- mined by developers who are now racing to reach their goalposts before the new policy is in place." jdebono@mediatoday.com.mt PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAY ATTARD Great surroundings, but the increasing density of properties no longer conforming to the original bungalows has brought a greater stress on the local sewage system, with its deleterious outfall finding itself right into the sea (below) The leaks are threatening the Santa Marija valley's ecosystem