PUBLISHED: 8 Mar 2024 at 04: 00
Phuket: About 500 people gathered yesterday in front of the gate to a personal property on a nearby street leading to Laem Nga Beach, demanding the estate designer open access to the shore as the path has been blocked for over a decade.
The attempt to regain access to the public land was sparked after a European man allegedly kicked a female doctor in the back while she and a companion sat on seaside steps leading to a palace the gentleman and his Thai woman book, which caused a public outcry.
The guy said he believed they were Chinese squatters.
The methods, a sturdy staircase and a marble dam next to the palace were afterwards found to possess encroached on the open beach and were ordered to be demolished.
It prompted the Facebook website Laem Nga Phuket to call on citizens to regain access to Laem Nga Beach, which has been blocked by Laem Nga Development, a secret company, since 2011.
Tuesday, about 500 individuals showed up in the area.
Some held hand- written placards with different messages like” We want our beach up” and” Road No 4097 does not pertain to a personal company. We all have the appropriate to use the street”.
Tambon Ratsada president, Nakarin Yosaengrat, said monday the 1, 290- inch remote road was built by the now- former Accelerated Rural Development Department– a forerunner of the Rural Roads Department– in 1994.
The street was transferred to Tambon Ratsada Municipality in 1997.
Only the first 800- inch bend of the path is now open to the public after the estate developer erected fences covering a 64- rai plot of land.
The name activities were issued in 1982, Mr Nakarin said, adding he likewise wondered why the path had been built inside the personal property.
The city does not have the power to dismantle the border because that part of the road is included in the private company’s name activities, he said.
Chanchai Tanthavachiraphan, the town leader of tambon Ratsada, said the land file needs to be verified. ” We want to hear the truth”, he said.
Deputy Phuket government Sattha Thongkham likewise visited the site to listen to the people’s problems.