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Illegalities committed as recently as a few months ago, even when located in historical urban areas, can still be regularised through the new planning amnesty announced on Monday.
This is because the legal notice, which foresees the regularisation of illegalities against the payment of a fee, applies to any illegality which appears on aerial photos taken by the PA in 2016.
Speculation on the imminent planning amnesty has been rife since February last year, when Planning Authority executive chairman Johann Buttigieg confirmed that the authority was considering an amnesty for illegalities committed before 2013 in development zones and before 1994 in ODZ illegalities.
But the legal notice which came into effect on Monday excludes the regularisation of ODZ development and includes illegalities carried out within the development zone - including urban conservation areas - between 2013 and 2016.
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