PUBLISHED: 18 Oct 2024 at 05: 00
According to Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, a request to change the atmosphere agency’s Dhupatemiya golf course in Pathum Thani into a public park needs to be thoroughly investigated because the location is a part of the military’s tactical operations.
The minister was responding to questions from Pathum Thani Chetawan Thuaprakhon, a People’s Party ( PP ) MP, regarding the possibility of giving the government control over the Dhupatemiya golf course’s conversion into a public park.
Prior to this suggestion, Mr. Chetawan suggested that the government make the site, which extends over 625 acres of land in Lam Luk Ka district, a sports complex and make some of the land a public park to raise the area’s natural space.
The opposition MP also requested that the air pressure remove its Kantarat golf lessons from Bangkok’s Don Muang region in order to make it a public area.
A particular House committee studying the transport of companies run by the military, which needs to hear from the military as part of the process, is currently looking into the matter, according to Mr. Phumtham.
A tactical operations system is in place to safeguard the military aircraft, the minister claims, because the Don Muang area can accommodate both commercial and military airports.
The weather force only has the right to use the Dhupatemiya golf training for tactical operations and regional security, and it also has military installations and an air-surveillance sensor station, so it cannot be moved and transformed into a public park at will.
He noted that the place is even designated as an emergency landing page so that it cannot handle any structures.
The government is prepared to discuss the issue further if the agency’s investigation finds that the change in property use has no effect and is unsafe.