News Forum - Koh Larn resorts accused of encroaching on coastlines

[Thaiger]

The island of Koh Larn, just off the coast of Pattaya, is the centre of a controversy as officials are threatening to pursue 39 private resorts accused of illegally encroaching on the coastlines. The Pattaya Marine Office says these resorts are cutting off the sea from the public, violating the Thai law that reserves beaches as state land and not private. Koh Larn is an idyllic getaway that draws throngs of tourists usually when there’s not a global pandemic going on. Its beautiful beaches and clear water attract tourists and plenty of tourism money. But the director of the Pattaya […]

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[Stonker]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

Koh Larn is an idyllic getaway that draws throngs of tourists usually ... Its beautiful beaches and clear water attract tourists and plenty of tourism money.

Maybe there's another Koh Larn ...

[Cathat]

Every square inch of beach in thailand is divided up by various mafias of one sort or another.

Why is this dump being singled out.

 

 

[AlexPTY]

Looks to me as a retaliation against island cutting off Pattaya visitors. In any case, it's a pretty darn good news. Island could be nice if they remove all those chicken houses from the beach 

[Bobfran]

The law is very hard to police.. of course it is with so much money changing hands.. mafia everywhere.

They wouldn't know who is up who and who isn't paying..

Blind eyes until the money stops coming in

[DWiener]

7 hours ago, Cathat said:

Every square inch of beach in thailand is divided up by various mafias of one sort or another.

Why is this dump being singled out.

True. Having recently driven/cycled around most of Phuket during the sandbox, and now biking around Samui, two things stand out - 1) how many truly awful resorts there are, and 2) how they make all the beaches so inaccessible. 

Before Covid is over, someone needs to take a sizeable fleet of bulldozers to about 70% of the construction in Phuket/Samui/Pattaya and level it all and start again. Unfortunately this won't happen, so expect Thai tourism to be over in a decade or two when 'Paradise' is horribly trashed

[DWiener]

3 hours ago, AlexPTY said:

Looks to me as a retaliation against island cutting off Pattaya visitors. In any case, it's a pretty darn good news. Island could be nice if they remove all those chicken houses from the beach 

Same goes for Samui and Phuket. 

[MikeTexas]

I think the beaches get encroached upon in a lot of places but the authorities ignore for various reasons - or maybe different laws apply to different areas.  These were being built in 2018 and appear to possibly go further out onto the beach than they should have.