Now you see it, now you don't - questions asked as building in Phuket spoils a great view

 

Picture: TNews

 

PHUKET: -- Online speculation about the legality of building on a beautiful stretch of the Phuket shoreline was rife at the weekend.

 

A Facebook post by "Bank Thanadon" said that an idyllic view on the Nai Han to Krathing cape had been ruined by the erection of a luxury property.

 

"I don't know who to blame for this," went the post that was reported on Tnews. ""When I first saw it I just thought what a bloody shame".

 

The poster said a great place to view the sunset was now blighted by the development.

 

Tnews reported that the Rawai municipal authorities have known about the development since complaints surfaced at the beginning of the year but the council claimed that the building was legal.

 

They are now coming under increasing pressure as social media is rife with allegations that the development should not have been given permission.

 

Many people posted before and after pictures of the area and expressed their frustration at a great view ruined.

 

Source: TNews

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-07-31

Really not the first :-(

Quite the eyesore looking at it from Nai Harn.  Construction has been crawling along or stopped for a while now over the last few months.

Imagine that! Now people just hav to get a little bit higher up to see almost the same view. 

This land has a build able title deed? 

Wait until a truck drives through the wall. That building is unsafe.

Looks deserted.Roll on High speed

39 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Wait until a truck drives through the wall. That building is unsafe.

Made me laugh

1 hour ago, inThailand said:

This land has a build able title deed? 

 

The an appropriate thick envelope.

Just now, LivinginKata said:

 

The an appropriate thick envelope.

Perhaps that's why building has stopped.  Envelopes haven't fully been sorted.

I thought building on govt forest land was a thing of the past? History is already repeating itself?

Seems encroachment of beachland.

Its a disgrace. The quality of construction is way above the normal Phuket standard. It should be demolished to avoid bringing shame apon all other builders.

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9 hours ago, webfact said:

but the council claimed that the building was legal.

not not not the point; in my area of the country, the golden triangle, sob ruak, people right on the river road can hardly see the Mekong river anymore; city planning ? HA; greed and payments

Perhaps the mayor needs some help to cover his legal woes.

 

 

From 2015>>>>>.. Aroon Soroj, Mayor of Rawai, is accused of allegedly approving construction of a pier in Rawai knowing that the fee was larger than necessary, paying 3.7 million baht over real requirements.

 

I would link to the article but it was from a publication that didn't want any links.

Shame shame to officials. How to ruin a once pleasant country for the sake of short term greed.  Let alone pollute the once beautiful sea with plastic/waste and of course raw sewerage Again shame on you!

Lets see if the Bangkok authorities think its legal or not?????

This is the place where I proposed to my wife. Sad to see it ruined.

A little bit before that building site, there is some kind of restaurant encroaching as well. For some unknown reason they managed to bring a few rusty containers and stack them on this world class site. Boggles the mind.

Follow the envelopes.The local govt office issues the building permits. Same as they did for the "S" hotel 300 meters down the road. 

I really hope it is an illegal build and is forced to get demolished in the future.

Geezer

Seems social media is the only way to get (local) officials to act.

 

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/995157-stop-building-now-luxury-phuket-villa-named-and-shamed-on-social media-ordered-halted/

Aside from the legality, why would anyone spend that kind of money to live 1 meter off the road, never mind a curved road -in Thailand no less?  Land of slow buses passing slower buses on blind curves.  Surely there's land available that wouldn't make the resident wonder if that next bus will be the one to come through the wall.

 

Next thing that would have to go up is the sound mitigating (and crash deflecting) retaining wall, and then it's just 1/2 meter.

 

1 hour ago, impulse said:

Aside from the legality, why would anyone spend that kind of money to live 1 meter off the road, never mind a curved road -in Thailand no less?  Land of slow buses passing slower buses on blind curves.  Surely there's land available that wouldn't make the resident wonder if that next bus will be the one to come through the wall.

 

Next thing that would have to go up is the sound mitigating (and crash deflecting) retaining wall, and then it's just 1/2 meter.

 

 

This is actually a very quiet road that in the past saw only a handful of vehicles per day as it goes only to a quiet beach and a couple small resorts.  The road also was only wide enough for a single car or truck.  I haven't been on the road for a couple of years, but I can't imagine it's been widened very much.