Owners of 39 ‘abandoned’ Bangkok buildings told to secure premises to prevent vice and crime

By The Nation

 

 

The owners of 39 “abandoned” buildings at 25 property development projects across the capital have been told to add lights, properly seal off the partially constructed buildings with fencing, and employ guards to patrol the compounds.

 

The move aims to prevent outsiders from using the sites as gathering place for vice, and especially to commit crime, a senior official said on Tuesday. 

 

Following a case earlier this month in which a 12-year-old girl was lured into and raped at an abandoned building at the end of Ramkhamhaeng Soi 81/4 in Bang Kapi district by a 42-year-old friend of the family, state offices were criticised for having allegedly neglected to supervise abandoned buildings that had become venues for vice. 

 

Sakchai Boonma, director of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Public Works Department, said his office had recently summoned owners of buildings whose construction had been halted due to impacts from the country’s economic problems and hence were in an abandoned state, in order to help find solutions. 

 

Many of the building owners have asked for state agencies’ help in further extending the effective/enforcement time period of a ministerial regulation about the issuance criteria for economic problem-affected building construction/modification permits, so as to motivate them or other interested persons to develop or improve these part-built buildings for economic benefits, the BMA official said. 

 

Sakchai said his office had complied with the request by contacting the Interior Ministry’s Public Works and Town and Country Planning Department, asking it to consider such an amendment of the regulation.

 

There are 39 such abandoned buildings under 25 property projects that were registered with the BMA’s Public Works Department, he said.

 

A recent inspection of these buildings by BMA officials, along with police and military officers, resulted in the owners being asked to tidy up the landscape, add lights, put up fences around the perimeter and have security guards on patrol, in order to prevent them from becoming outsiders’ gathering sites for vice and crime, he explained.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30364802

 

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This should be done much more...i know abandoned buildings where the rotting windows are hanging above the sidewalk by only 1 hinge...just some wind and they 'll fall down.

 

 

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It is easy to ask them to do it. Chances of it happening ?  NIL

Names and photos....shame time!!

The whole city is covered with these type of abandoned properties for many years and nothing is done about it ! there are no laws to prevent property owners leaving their dumps empty and a hazard until they get the right price from a developer

 

 

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I hope they hang that dirty SOB for what he did to that poor young girl!

The new property tax law Land and Building Tax Act passed on 16 November 2018 and originally to  commence on 1 January 2020 (now delayed until after election of a new government) might mitigate the continued existence of these abandoned, unused or unfinished buildings.

 

Land or buildings used for commercial purposes will be taxed initially at the same ceiling rate for land or buildings that are left vacant or not used for "reasonable benefits." The latter if left unused, for every three years the tax rate will be increased 0.3%.

https://globalcompliancenews.com/new-property-tax-thailand-20181129/

See also:

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/business/2018/11/23/thai-law-behind-new-property-taxes-a-historic-push-for-redistribution/

 

Ghost Towers: True Stories Behind 4 of Bangkok’s Scariest Abandoned Buildings

by Honghame Pimdee · 11 months ago in Lifestyle

A tourist heaven like Bangkok draws in people from all around the world on the regular with the unmatched charm of its foods, history, culture, and smiles. What most people might not know if there’s another type of attraction that invites daredevils from all places to come to Bangkok for a unique experience that is both dangerous and illegal. They are the abandoned building structures that are tucked away around the city of Bangkok.

 

https://www.siam2nite.com/en/magazine/lifestyle/item/819-ghost-towers-true-stories-behind-4-of-bangkoks-scariest-abandoned-buildings 

Edited February 28, 20197 yr by metisdead
Edited as per fair use policy.

The new property tax law Land and Building Tax Act passed on 16 November 2018 and originally to  commence on 1 January 2020 (now delayed until after election of a new government) might mitigate the continued existence of these abandoned, unused or unfinished buildings.
 
Land or buildings used for commercial purposes will be taxed initially at the same ceiling rate for land or buildings that are left vacant or not used for "reasonable benefits." The latter if left unused, for every three years the tax rate will be increased 0.3%.
https://globalcompliancenews.com/new-property-tax-thailand-20181129/
See also:
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/business/2018/11/23/thai-law-behind-new-property-taxes-a-historic-push-for-redistribution/
 

Typical Thailand! Pass a law in 2018 but not effective until 2020 ... if at all!


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Considering most of these abandoned ghost buildings are from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis I would say its about time. The government should also change the laws so banks have to declare the real value of these buildings on there balance sheets and not the grossly inflated numbers that the ghost buildings building are listed for. It reminds me of the WorldCom accounting scam. Listing 15-year-old company vans and trucks at the full purchase price.

13 hours ago, wreckingcountry said:

Typical Thailand! Pass a law in 2018 but not effective until 2020 ... if at all!


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The next Military coup, maybe