webfact Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 7 day demolition order issued to popular South Pattaya HotelPATTAYA: -- A South Pattaya Hotel which has reportedly ignored warnings from City Hall regarding their unauthorized extensions to the Hotel have now been told to demolish the extensions within 7 days or face legal action.On Tuesday Morning an officer from the Engineering Department of Pattaya City Hall posted the demolition notices on three buildings which form part of The Boutique Hotel located in Soi VC in South Pattaya.The first building which was previously 7 floors was extended to 11 floors, the second was 3 floors which was extended to 5 floors and the third building was 3 floors extended to 7 floors.Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/97329/7-day-demolition-order-issued-popular-south-pattaya-hotel/-- Pattaya One 2013-07-30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asiantravel Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) how amazing ! There are many Indians in this area and I would just be curious if this hotel is owned by Indians because they have a total disregard for complying with planning and building consent. Adding a few floors onto buildings in Bombay is a pretty standard occurrence and the local authority in Bombay doesn't even have the manpower there to keep up with all the infringements Edited July 30, 2013 by Asiantravel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrisRMenumate Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 how amazing ! There are many Indians in this area and I would just be curious if this hotel is owned by Indians because they have a total disregard for complying with planning and building consent. Adding a few floors onto buildings in Bombay is a pretty standard occurrence and the local authority in Bombay doesn't even have the manpower there to keep up with all the infringements thats a bit prejudiced... there are plenty of examples of the same by Thais.... don't keep blaming foreigners for everything, we can't be responsible for everything here (not that I am an Indian) and... more than likely its just a matter of not having greased the right palms to get renovation extentsion permits for the new floors, surely they are all engineered to be safe by the owner.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post laurentbkk Posted July 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2013 how amazing ! There are many Indians in this area and I would just be curious if this hotel is owned by Indians because they have a total disregard for complying with planning and building consent. Adding a few floors onto buildings in Bombay is a pretty standard occurrence and the local authority in Bombay doesn't even have the manpower there to keep up with all the infringements as you have absolutely no clues if they are Indian , your comment is a bit "racist". Dont you think Thais can do the same ? or any nationality ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Does Soi VC run between Walking Street and Second Road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonneke breda Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 The most amazing thing in my opinion is that they even could start the construction, which should be noticeable, and no city-official ever told them to stop. probably the tea-money wasn't paid in time so they told them to tear it down 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianatlarge Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Criticize bad stuff all you want, but don't make the mistake of assuming that it is all Thais or all Indians, or whatever, that do "bad stuff". Dumb/bad people do bad things for their own short term gain. Right now I read about a gas plant in the usa that just blow up, and not long ago that fertilizer plant in Texas. If you take a look around the world you will see many more egs of bad stuff, not just in Thailand and not just by Indians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonneke breda Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Does Soi VC run between Walking Street and Second Road? It's the big renovated place which stands in front of you when you leave walking street coming out of one of the small soi's. If you come from the Soi where Tony Short stay is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 A post complaining about the title removed. News titles and content come directly from the media site unmodified. So next time read the site linked to and complain to them not Thaivisa News team. Getting tired of blame being put where it doesn't belong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavefloater Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 A post complaining about the title removed. News titles and content come directly from the media site unmodified. So next time read the site linked to and complain to them not Thaivisa News team. Getting tired of blame being put where it doesn't belong. It was my post, and I was poking fun -- not complaining. I assume that Webfact reads these stories before posting them to make sure that there's no content that breaks the TVF rules. So, perhaps he could raise the status of this forum by typing in a more honest topic line than the one he or she is given by the media site. It would make you guys look better and not mislead the readers at this forum. Just an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 A post complaining about the title removed. News titles and content come directly from the media site unmodified. So next time read the site linked to and complain to them not Thaivisa News team. Getting tired of blame being put where it doesn't belong. It was my post, and I was poking fun -- not complaining. I assume that Webfact reads these stories before posting them to make sure that there's no content that breaks the TVF rules. So, perhaps he could raise the status of this forum by typing in a more honest topic line than the one he or she is given by the media site. It would make you guys look better and not mislead the readers at this forum. Just an idea. Then we are in copyright violation. No modification of original material is allowed under fair use and full use copyright laws. Webfact and LB work hard at putting these News topics up and 'poking fun' of them is disheartening to them. Anyway, back to the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 (edited) The most amazing thing in my opinion is that they even could start the construction, which should be noticeable, and no city-official ever told them to stop. probably the tea-money wasn't paid in time so they told them to tear it down There was another thread on the same subject, I assume the same hotel, in which it was said they had received orders to stop construction, which obviously were ignored. The officials were exasperated at what they found: construction on a second Boutique Hotel building was still proceeding, despite repeated stop-work orders from city hall. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/654794-pattaya-threatens-demolition-of-illegally-expanded-boutique-hotel/ Edited July 30, 2013 by Suradit69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xen Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 It doesn't matter who is responsible or whether tea money has or has not been paid but what is important is whether a structural engineer has designed the extensions . Three extra stories is a lot of extra strain on the building and if it collapses and people either inside the building or in the surrounding area are injured or killed, plus property damage , then good on the authorities for demanding demolition and i hope it becomes standard practice for all those building which are not structurally designed. Maybe it is because of tea money etc but it is still a good move towards public safety as i see it . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 That's a LOT of construction but there had been previous reports & they still continued on adding floors. Amazing Thailand is a correct ad line. Sure displays a total disregard for local authority regardless of where the owners are from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthefareast Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Knock it down! Total disregard for building practices and very dangerous at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsxrnz Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'll bet both my nuts that the buildings will still be standing in 7 years, never mind 7 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemoncake Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 If you asked me, nothing but empty threats . How does one demolish extensions? Ie how to remove ONLY top floors? The order is unreasonable and undoable and I am sure penalty will be laughable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 How does one demolish extensions? Ie how to remove ONLY top floors? The reverse way of how they were added. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 (edited) they will learn their lesson when it collapes and somebody will escape off course their responsability hope someone put this on that travelling website (trip something) to advise people not to stay there Edited July 31, 2013 by Rimmer Racist comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 One has to wonder if the foundations and the buildings itself were designed to cope with the additional load?! I remember this shopping mall in Korea collapsing because of the weight of the later installed and heavier air conditioning systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemoncake Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 How does one demolish extensions? Ie how to remove ONLY top floors? The reverse way of how they were added. LOL, I think you may find reversing is much harder than adding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 The most amazing thing in my opinion is that they even could start the construction, which should be noticeable, and no city-official ever told them to stop. probably the tea-money wasn't paid in time so they told them to tear it down I agree completely, good points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Anybody who has been in Thailand for a while knows this building will NOT be demolished. This threat is simply the endplay in extracting the proper amount of money in a brown envelope.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Most likely the original buildings' foundations were not engineered to withstand the weight of the additionally-added floors/stories. Which means these buildings are now very much in danger of collapse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellodolly Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 how amazing ! There are many Indians in this area and I would just be curious if this hotel is owned by Indians because they have a total disregard for complying with planning and building consent. Adding a few floors onto buildings in Bombay is a pretty standard occurrence and the local authority in Bombay doesn't even have the manpower there to keep up with all the infringements thats a bit prejudiced... there are plenty of examples of the same by Thais.... don't keep blaming foreigners for everything, we can't be responsible for everything here (not that I am an Indian) and... more than likely its just a matter of not having greased the right palms to get renovation extentsion permits for the new floors, surely they are all engineered to be safe by the owner.... Well you had me believing until you said "surely they are all engineered to be safe by the owner." With the open in your face corruption there in Pattaya I am amazed that the money had not changed hands long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Here is an interesting link to another commercial building in Thailand that was forced to close down due to illegally adding floors. It is an interesting tale. http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/06/19/bangkok-fishbowl-exotic-species-swim-free-abandoned-mall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2169 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 7 day demolition order issued to popular South Pattaya Hotel PATTAYA: -- A South Pattaya Hotel which has reportedly ignored warnings from City Hall regarding their unauthorized extensions to the Hotel have now been told to demolish the extensions within 7 days or face legal action. On Tuesday Morning an officer from the Engineering Department of Pattaya City Hall posted the demolition notices on three buildings which form part of The Boutique Hotel located in Soi VC in South Pattaya. The first building which was previously 7 floors was extended to 11 floors, the second was 3 floors which was extended to 5 floors and the third building was 3 floors extended to 7 floors. Full story: http://www.pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/97329/7-day-demolition-order-issued-popular-south-pattaya-hotel/ -- Pattaya One 2013-07-30 Sounds like to late for paying off the right people, its not matter what u know it matters who u know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2169 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'll bet both my nuts that the buildings will still be standing in 7 years, never mind 7 days.I'm with u on this mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 inflammatory post and quoted reply removed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitawatWatawit Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'll bet both my nuts that the buildings will still be standing in 7 years, never mind 7 days.I'm with u on this mate I'm sharpening my knife, just in case both of you are wrong. Start sweating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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