18 Chiang Mai resorts examined for suspected encroachment

[rooster59]

18 Chiang Mai resorts examined for suspected encroachment

 

 

A team of officials on Saturday (Sept 23) examined 18 resorts in Chiang Mai province to find out if they have encroached on Mae Tha Chang and Mae Khanin forest reserves.

 

The team, comprising military, police and administrative officials and local leaders, was was led by Cholathis Suraswadi, director-general of the Royal Forest Department.

 

Mr Cholathis said in the team found 18 resorts and other constructions in a total of about 144 rai land suspected to have encroached on Mae Tha Chang and Mae Khanin forest reserves in tambon Nam Phrae of Hang Dong district, the authorities.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/18-chiang-mai-resorts-examined-suspected-encroachment/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-09-24

[Get Real]

Shut them down. Good work again!

People know very well that they can not bouild on land that they no have the rights for. Stupid owners that should be thrown out of business.

[khwaibah]

Bangkok Post front page. The Bangkok Post reports that the land title deeds are Sor Khor 1 not 3 as the Nations reports. Big difference. 

[Tonto21]

I don’t pretend to understand all the law regarding land ownership or claiming land in Thailand…. Like most laws in Thailand it is very complicated.

What I do know is the laws in place regarding people just grabbing land is a good one. It’s aim is to stop Unscrupulous individual or companies grabbing land, sitting on it and after a given amount of time, applying for ownership, which is doable if you are Thai and going to use for your own use, (not for commercial use) No in all areas.

The whole law is about keeping the price of land down and affordable and obtainable for the poor….. These companies drive the price of land up and force the poor out of the areas.

The problem is corruption, the man that’s paid to look away is not always the man for long.

[rebo]

Cycling around in Nam Phrae forests since about 10 years almost daily my MTB companions and I can observe clearly the “development” of former woodlands to (mostly huge) barbed wired areas still with open  access sections to closing these after some years to erect walls so high that you can’t have a look what goes on inside to build concrete roads to access them comfortably, and one day, when you peer over the wall you see big residences surrounded by lawns, garden and gazebos ...
I can’t say if this happens legally or not but it’s obvious for us that some seemingly already rich individuals take more and more control over former pure forest land. And it doesn't look right.

[12DrinkMore]

1 hour ago, rebo said:

I can’t say if this happens legally or not but it’s obvious for us that some seemingly already rich individuals take more and more control over former pure forest land. And it doesn't look right.

 

Send a message to Mr Prayuth.

 

He will put them on the long long list of places to visit.

 

 

[rebo]

18 minutes ago, 12DrinkMore said:

 

Send a message to Mr Prayuth.

 

He will put them on the long long list of places to visit.

 

 

Then he will put me on the long long list of places to visit ...

Edited September 24, 2017 by rebo

[12DrinkMore]

4 hours ago, khwaibah said:

reports that the land title deeds are Sor Khor 1 not 3 as the Nations reports.

 

Aah, this is following the usual line of defence, "But I have the corect papers".

 

The question is how were these papers issued?

 

And the answer is usualy a very hefty bung in the right direction.

[jippytum]

Love or hate the present government they are doing a good job to restore illegal land grabs from the 'Hi So '  elite and restore it to public ownership .There have been hundreds of cases all over the country . Well done !!

 

[rudi49jr]

Just follow the money, find out where all the brown envelopes went; millions and millions of Baht must have been paid in bribes to several people high up to make this possible. You simply can not build 18 resorts (is this just the tip of the iceberg? how many more illegal resorts are there?) in protected areas without handing over many fat brown envelopes to a whole lot of people in power.

[Billy Bloggs]

Yep close em down and make them tear them down at their cost.

Edited September 24, 2017 by Billy Bloggs

[Destiny1990]

They might still be able to tactically delay eviction for the next 35 years.

[Ruffian Dick]

It really seems like officials have been giving these developments covert assent or benign neglect for a long time.

I can't see any other reason that these developments have flourished for so long.

Probably bribes all this time, and now, some NGO is leaning on the government to preserve their preserves...

[Greenside]

Setting up Google Earth with an overlay showing forest reserves seems to have been a step more than the government IT department can manage.  Perhaps they could ask the Immigration 90 Day Online Report people how it's done.  Oh....

[Ruffian Dick]

14 hours ago, Greenside said:

Setting up Google Earth with an overlay showing forest reserves seems to have been a step more than the government IT department can manage.  Perhaps they could ask the Immigration 90 Day Online Report people how it's done.  Oh....

In the west, if you buy land, it's got to be run through a title search, and you would soon find out that you are encroaching on national park land. Either that isn't the process in Thailand, or these are all squatters...

[InMyShadow]

Love or hate the present government they are doing a good job to restore illegal land grabs from the 'Hi So '  elite and restore it to public ownership .There have been hundreds of cases all over the country . Well done !!
 

Yes it's a breath of fresh air considering the last 20 years of government did absolutely zip zero nada!!!