revised plan to become effective the following month
PUBLISHED: 3 Sep 2024 at 04: 54
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration ( BMA ) will not hold a public hearing on the city’s fourth-annual revision of its city plan, claiming that Bangkok residents from all six district groups have already voiced their views. The plan will go into effect late in the year.
Numerous civil society organizations have criticized the third document of BMA’s Bangkok City Plan. They claim the program will do little to nothing to fix the city’s many woes, including severe customers overcrowding, poor water management, and the lack of living space for the weak. However, they said, the government was not consulted throughout the procedure.
According to assistant Bangkok government Wisanu Subsompon, most problems voiced by Bangkok citizens relate to changes to the city’s colour-based planning, property confiscation rules, as well as the lack of open open spaces.
Governor of Bangkok Chadchart Sittipunt had already extended the deadline for the people reading half, from December 23 to January 22, 2024, and again from February 29 to August 30 to supply all parties involved ample time to review the revised strategy and offer their opinions, he said.
As such, the BMA resolved never to prolong the reading suddenly, as sufficient people have expressed their opinions.
According to Mr. Wisanu, the BMA’s Department of City Planning and Urban Development will take their views into consideration and submit them for authorization to the BMA’s advisory council on capital planning and the Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning.
After that, those affected by the revised template will be able to submit their problems, which will be reviewed by the municipal urban planning committee.
He anticipated that the updated area strategy would be published in the Royal Gazette by the end of the year.
Previously, several organisations, including Thailand Consumers Council (TCC), the Foundation for Consumers, and the Society for the Conservation of National Treasure and Environment ( Sconte ), along with a group of residents affected by the revised plan, petitioned Mr Chadchart to ditch the plan, saying it violates the law and human rights.
Saree Aungsomwang, the TCC Secretary-General, claimed that the program does not address the issues that affect the occupants of the capital’s quality of life.
She stated that the council will file a lawsuit against the BMA if the BMA does n’t adjust the plan within 30 days.