City demolishes pubs, rental rooms still blocking South Pattaya canal

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City demolishes pubs, rental rooms still blocking South Pattaya canal

PATTAYA:--More than 30 Pattaya workers demolished rental rooms, makeshift pubs, and hotel annexes spread over 3 rai in South Pattaya after they ignored orders to remove obstructions to a drainage canal.

Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay and Sompob Wandee, director of the Water Quality Management Division led teams with backhoes and sledgehammers to the Soho Square area off Walking Street March 18.

The operation came 45 days after the latest city order for property owners to voluntarily remove structures over and obstructing the South Pattaya canal, a vital waterway for storm runoff.

Verawat said many property owners have cooperated with the latest city effort to clear the canal zone, but some intransigent owners refused to remove their buildings, which also included unpermitted private homes.

The demolitions are the first progress made on the canal clearing since September, when former Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho told Pattaya city officials to stop stalling and get on with completing the job he began last April.

The work completed in the past year has been the most-significant progress at clearing the obstructed waterway since Pattaya officials first promised to do so in 2009. Bulldozers hit the area in April, May and August last year, then all work seemed to stop.

On Sept. 11, Sakchai told the city to proceed against the last holdouts, but final orders were not issued to the squatters until late January. The city then waited 45 days before bringing in the backhoes.

The last remaining illegal structure is the large entertainment venue at the entrance of Bali Hai Pier. The city is now waiting for orders from Chonburi Province on how to proceed.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-03-29

[lee b]

A quick simple - GOOD !

[torpedo1970]

The last remaining illegal structure is the large entertainment venue at the entrance of Bali Hai Pier.

Is this the building with Starbucks and a few disco's in??

[espinoza]

Why do they not have the balls to take the last one ???? Chicken cops :-)

[doremifasol]

Good job! What will make me extremely pleased is to

see some damage done to the "big shots you don't know who I am"

[champers]

Why do they not have the balls to take the last one ???? Chicken cops :-)

Perhaps they have a "share" in the business; or it's proceeds at a guess.

[bangon04]

"The operation came 45 days after the latest city order for property owners to voluntarily remove structures over and obstructing the South Pattaya canal, a vital waterway for storm runoff."

Good to see that the demolition teams made an effort not to dump any debris into this vital waterway......

[wiesner]

if you look back 20 years the whole side of walking street on the water was to be demolished and beach road connected to the fly over on third road.

[johng]

Yes they are still "getting round to" that...

[balo]

"but some intransigent owners refused to remove their buildings, which also included unpermitted private homes."

I wonder what kind of owners they are. 'Lets build a private home and live there.' Who needs a permission anyway.