Jomtien Beach redevelopment options mulled

[Rimmer]

Jomtien Beach redevelopment options mulled

PATTAYA:--More than half of the community leaders, hotel operators, government organizations and media outlets surveyed want Jomtien Beach to be 35 meters wide, protected by a breakwater, and feature a public park.

The majority of eligible voters chose full-scale redevelopment of the beach during a June 9 meeting on a master plan to counter years of erosion in Jomtien. Attending the session at the Grand Jomtien Beach Palace were 209 members of community and government groups, including the Pattaya City Council, Board of Consultants, city manager, and project lead Thanawat Jarupong.

A survey was circulated, listing five options for the development, with no price tag of each option disclosed.

The majority, 51.3 percent, voted for the full program of beachhead, breakwater and park. The second choice was a submerged breakwater and 35-meter-wide beach, which was selected by 14.5 percent of the respondents.

A simple sand refill to take the beach to 35 meters was chosen by 11.1 percent of the group while a beachhead with no breakwater was chosen by just 3.4 percent and just the park by just 2.6 percent.

The choices will be studied and presented at the next as-yet-unscheduled meeting.

- See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/jomtien-beach-redevelopment-options-mulled-48104#sthash.3HS2vr1N.dpuf

-- Pattaya Mail 2015-06-19

[petermik]

I just hope they don,t consult with the people resposible for Pattaya Beach,s "new walkway"

[Gsxrnz]

Meanwhile they've got the diggers and dozers ripping the beach up already.

But according to this article it would appear that the previously published plans are now up for debate and possible change.

Oh well, the more they change the plans, the more money can be wasted spent, and the more baht can be creamed off the top (and the middle, and the bottom) of the over expenditure.

Chances of the place being reassembled prior to the high season commencing are somewhere between nil and zero I suspect.

[lonewolf99]

Did anyone mention keeping the stinking beach clean...?

The "local" contractors cannot even put 2 paving slabs side by side so what hope is there of them makng this look lile a proper job ? Answer none.

A new pull box was built just up from Linda's in Jomtien - this is a cable pull box for no cables. After the first rain the pavement has collapsed. The pavements where they poured watery cement to fill holes for "extra pull boxes" are falling apart.

Not one conduit in these pull boxes has a cable in it. I counted 8 pull boxes in the space of 30 mfrs on one section of pevement near Rompho.

Drains are concreted over and the rain water torrents down to the beach and rips up the badly made surfaces and walls. The same will happen when they (if ever) finish this mad beach project.

the place is a bad joke.

[swissie]

I was secretly hoping, that they would keep "mulling" concerning this issue for the next 10 years, always hoping that they would eventually fall asleep while doing a lot of "mulling". But, according to a post above, actual construction work has already started (?!)

If the "mullers" take their inspiration from the "improvement" of Pattaya Beach, then good night. Of course, this would never stop the "Tourist Authority of Thailand" (TAT) to propagate Pattaya Beach / Jomtien Beach as a "Family oriented Beach Side Resort".

Cheers.