Parking permits currently cannot be enforced, LESA confirms

No government agency can enforce parking permit infractions pending the conclusion of an ongoing legal battle, the head of the law enforcement agency has confirmed.
“At the moment, nobody is able to enforce parking permit contraventions,” said LESA CEO Svetlick Flores.

“This has been going on since September... all councils are receiving complaints.”
Permits issued by local councils are commonly used to reserve parking spaces for cranes and skips, warning motorists to steer away from parking in the spot and warning it is a tow away zone.
In the past, those parking in such reserved spaces may have been contacted by the police or LESA officials to remove their vehicle and, in some cases, may have even returned to find the vehicle towed.
One Gżira resident spent a frustrated morning contacting different government departments when two cars parked in the bays she had reserved.
The parking spaces were needed to make way for a crane she had booked to unload building materials to her apartment on the fifth floor.
“When I called the police, they told me they couldn’t call the car owners due to a new policy,” Julia Papkova told Times of Malta.
“They advised me to call the council, who...