News Forum - Nearly 1,000 hotels in Phuket are currently considered “illegal”

[Thaiger]

Phuket is home to 994 small hotels which are facing closure as a result of their unauthorised use on public property. The building control laws were discovered to have been broken by about 53% of the investigated properties. Environmental laws were found to be the most common law broken by the hotels. According to the Deputy Phuket governor, several unlicensed hotels had been built in areas that were restricted, such as agricultural land areas, zones listed in ministerial guidelines on city planning and national park areas. A few were discovered to have violated the Building Control Act. Only 91 of […]

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[Grant]

6 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Phuket is home to 994 small hotels which are facing closure as a result of their unauthorised use on public property. The building control laws were discovered to have been broken by about 53% of the investigated properties. Environmental laws were found to be the most common law broken by the hotels. According to the Deputy Phuket governor, several unlicensed hotels had been built in areas that were restricted, such as agricultural land areas, zones listed in ministerial guidelines on city planning and national park areas. A few were discovered to have violated the Building Control Act. Only 91 of […]

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Who got paid illegally under the table for them to build there?

If theses Hotels are illegal why don’t you go after the people who gave them the go ahead?

Maybe corrupt politicians or Police taking Bribes which they consider is normal!

What constitutes illegal?

The people allowing them to build or the people who built the Hotels?

You can’t have both?

Someone allowed the building?

[Prosaap]

Yes and conflicting rules and laws, corruption, civil survants that have no clue about the laws it all not help  

[Rebel]

Everything works that way in Thailand. It's only when things go wrong they pretend to do anything about it. Someone probably filled up the bank account. Not by honest work but by exercising curruption.  Are any readers really surprised and especially in Phuket. I ain't.

[oldschooler]

33 minutes ago, Rebel said:

Everything works that way in Thailand. It's only when things go wrong they pretend to do anything about it. Someone probably filled up the bank account. Not by honest work but by exercising curruption.  Are any readers really surprised and especially in Phuket. I ain't.

There No Laws in Thailand ,which cannot be circumvented by Cash or Connections, only Culture. 

[Totoro]

Really? Noooo, not in Thailand.Where I live there are 2 long beaches with around 80 hotels or resorts. A couple of years ago the army showed up and all but one hotel were operating illegally. Places (Restaurants, bars, massage) that were set up on the beach were given a week to dismantle and remove everything. After six months things were back to "normal" and we can enjoy our meals on the beach once again. You gotta love this country.

[Guest1]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

The building control laws were discovered to have been broken by about 53% of the investigated properties.

Does that mean, they wanna give the public back, what belongs to the public? I mean everywhere? The people, who wana have plants in front of their premisses, but need the restaurant space so "plant" them on the sidewalks, the housing extensions even including the powerpoles , so easy to spot, that a meter, minimum, is occupied public ground? 

Or is that now only happening, because the "business friends" of the people in charge have "legit" hotels to fill and don't like the cheap competition to take away "their" customers?

Sound to me like manila e. politics, again.

[Guest1]

1 hour ago, Grant said:

Who got paid illegally under the table for them to build there?

If theses Hotels are illegal why don’t you go after the people who gave them the go ahead?

Maybe corrupt politicians or Police taking Bribes which they consider is normal!

What constitutes illegal?

The people allowing them to build or the people who built the Hotels?

You can’t have both?

Someone allowed the building?

Imho, you dont need any permission, to build anything on your ground.

So don't ask, everyone will assume, it is hour and shut up.

Oh, exept a well, these days, on Phuket

Till someone points fingers.

[Giltee]

Well maybe it’s better they don’t open because words getting round about the eipoff taxi mafia, that there’s better places to go. Now even if you hire a car the police are stopping drivers and fining them 1000 Baht if they don’t have an international or Thai drivers licence. A friend just told me so my advice was go somewhere else. 

[oldschooler]

3 hours ago, Totoro said:

Really? Noooo, not in Thailand.Where I live there are 2 long beaches with around 80 hotels or resorts. A couple of years ago the army showed up and all but one hotel were operating illegally. Places (Restaurants, bars, massage) that were set up on the beach were given a week to dismantle and remove everything. After six months things were back to "normal" and we can enjoy our meals on the beach once again. You gotta love this country.

No farangs should be frequenting any food vendors set up directly on any beach. Illegal, Ecologically Ignorant,  Unhygenic, Polluting, Damages / Intervenes in Beach Ecosysyem.

Thais dont know any better. Don’t emulate /encourage /support their typical ignorance in these matters.

Appalling practice. Supporting every low grade sub- standard aspect of Tourism here. Shame.

[oldschooler]

Just now, oldschooler said:

No farangs should be frequenting any food vendors set up directly on any beach. Illegal, Ecologically Ignorant,  Unhygenic, Polluting, Damages / Intervenes in Beach Ecosysyem.

Thais dont know any better. Don’t emulate /encourage /support their typical ignorance in these matters.

Appalling practice. Supporting every low grade sub- standard aspect of Tourism here. Shame.

Yes we love this country for various reasons. So don’t participate in its pollution & destruction.

[oldschooler]

2 hours ago, Giltee said:

Well maybe it’s better they don’t open because words getting round about the eipoff taxi mafia, that there’s better places to go. Now even if you hire a car the police are stopping drivers and fining them 1000 Baht if they don’t have an international or Thai drivers licence. A friend just told me so my advice was go somewhere else. 

Because of self- inflicted transport issues ? Absurd. Better Places ? Never Found Them ….. for what I look for.

[oldschooler]

3 hours ago, Guest1 said:

Imho, you dont need any permission, to build anything on your ground.

So don't ask, everyone will assume, it is hour and shut up.

Oh, exept a well, these days, on Phuket

Till someone points fingers.

“ Your Ground”? Many hotels & residences are typically illegally built on protected national forest land with illegal building permits.

Nobody “ assumes” anything except the perpetrators thinking they’ll never suffer the consequences

“Peaks Residence” (Karon) typical case. Ordered torn down by Thai National Parliament. Local Mayor forced out. Thai MPs lives threatened.

 

[oldschooler]

4 hours ago, Prosaap said:

Yes and conflicting rules and laws, corruption, civil survants that have no clue about the laws it all not help  

If you are a Thai civil servant believing that any “ laws” are really applicable you will not rise above entry level!

[Mazz11]

13 hours ago, oldschooler said:

If you are a Thai civil servant believing that any “ laws” are really applicable you will not rise above entry level!

What a sad situation that has been created, 'if you want to succeed you must be corrupt'.

[oldschooler]

1 hour ago, Mazz11 said:

What a sad situation that has been created, 'if you want to succeed you must be corrupt'.

Culture outside all Western countries though.