Private company blocking beach access road ordered to meet with officials

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Private company blocking beach access road ordered to meet with officials
Phuket Gazette


Members of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command and the Damrongdhama Center inspect the area in question. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

PHUKET: -- Officials have called on Laem Nga Development Co Ltd to meet with representatives from the Marine Office and local authorities after receiving complaints that they were blocking an access road to Laem Nga Beach in Rassada.

The complaint, submitted to the Damrongdhama Center (ombudsman’s office), saw members of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command and Damrongdhama Center inspect the area in question.

“When we arrived, we saw that the road, which is the responsibility of the Rassada municipality, had been blocked off with a barrier and barbed wire,” said Damrongdhama Center Chief Prapan Kanprasang. “There was also a sign that read ‘Private Land - Do not enter - Danger’.”

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-- Phuket Gazette 2016-03-25

[bearpolar]

That's a pretty nice beach for the east coast. Would be fun if it was accessible

[colinneil]

Meet with officials!!! is it private land or not.

If not rip down the barriers and then charge them with obstructing a public highway.

If it is private leave them alone, they can block the road if it is private.

[dageurreotype]

And while theyr'e at it, have those signs/wire fences been torn down from that beach North of Bangtao yet?

[Baerboxer]

Meet with officials!!! is it private land or not.

If not rip down the barriers and then charge them with obstructing a public highway.

If it is private leave them alone, they can block the road if it is private.

Too logical and black and white Colin.

Shades of grey - always the opportunity for a good earner.

[False top]

Meet with officials!!! is it private land or not.

If not rip down the barriers and then charge them with obstructing a public highway.

If it is private leave them alone, they can block the road if it is private.

There is a third possibility where it is private land but has a Right of Way (ROW) as part of the land deal.

This should be easy enough to check but as we have seen so many times in the past, the wheels of justice turn slowly in Thailand (for the chosen few).