More fireworks factories?

Abstract

Through a fledgling working group on fireworks factories, the Malta Environment and Planning Authority is currently drafting a new policy on such factories, along with another new policy on petrol stations, besides the revision of a clutch of other existing policies. No prizes for guessing that fireworks factories must necessarily be sited in Outside Development Zone areas, as isolated and remote as possible from existing habitations. However, the construction of such factories has, over the years, raised the ire of many in view of their encroachment on a number of uncommitted sites, usually lying within valleys or on cliffs.