Still ignoring city hall orders, Boutique Hotel again faces demolition

PATTAYA:--Nearly six months after the forced demolition of an annex at the Boutique Hotel, area officials are again threatening legal action against the South Pattaya inn for failing to remove three illegal floors of its main building.

Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho and Pattaya Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh led a team of city engineers in an inspection of the hotel on Soi VC May 15, a day after Pattaya Business & Tourism Association President Sinchai Wattanasartsathorn complained about the Boutique’s continued defiance of government orders.

What they found was little had changed since Nov. 26, when 50 police and government workers swooped in to demolish an annex built without permission and in violation of fire and safety codes. At the same time, officials ordered the removal of the top three floors of its main building, which also were added without permit or inspection.

Owned by Jomtien Holiday Inn Co., which is managed by Alongkorn Saewang, the Boutique was found in mid-2012 to have massively violated building codes. The Building Control Office ordered work stopped on the annex and prohibited use of the illegal floors in existing hotel. Both orders were ignored, as did a second stop-work order issued a month later.
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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-05-23

All they need to do now is to find a canal underneath the building and they will call in the demolitions experts.

Looking around, and observing life around here, I submit this man is not the only one refusing to pay bribes to ignoring City Hall.

Not that I mind this style of governance, but the hypocrisy is so thick sometimes, that one finds it difficult not to snort in ones beer.