Described: 20 Jul 2024 at 05: 08
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration ( BMA ) has requested that a public hearing on its new city planning blueprint be held by the Thailand Consumers Council (TCC), and Bangkok community representatives have also requested that it be called for to be halted, or they will ask the Administrative Court to rule against it.
At City Hall on Friday, TCC secretary-general Saree Aungsomwang and more than 100 people from 28 different neighborhoods in Bangkok wrote to government Chadchart Sittipunt to object to the new capital plan.
Ms. Saree claimed that the town planning plan and public hearings on it were in violation of the City Planning Act.
The law mandates that any public hearings on capital planning must consider the potential effects on residents and that individuals must be given enough information regarding ways to lessen such negative effects.
They even violate Section 72 of the law, which stipulates any village arranging should meet the needs of people in the area, she said.
She claimed that the organized template ignores issues involving customers, flooding, and PM2.5 pollution while focusing on densely populated urban areas.
It likewise lacks measures to improve patient’s quality of life, especially low-income workers, Ms Saree said.
She claimed that the new version’s public hearings were based on a past framework created in 2019. Since 2017, these hearings have n’t had the same level of public participation as they should have.
She noted that just about 20 000 people have participated in these in the past seven years, and that they had much time to express their thoughts or ask questions.
People are likely to be impacted by a lack of specific details regarding the new blueprint’s plan to expand many roads in Bangkok, she said.
The BMA has start a new, more thorough public receiving process instead of its current one. The TCC and its networks will take the matter to the Administrative Court, according to Ms. Saree, if the BMA does n’t stop the hearings within 30 days.
Public hearings on the town planning framework were now taking place in 42 districts in Bangkok, according to Thaiwut Khankaew, chairman of the BMA’s City Planning and Urban Development Department. Hearings in the remaining eight districts must be finished by next month.
Feedback will be used to prepare the new capital planning template by November, he said, and it will be reviewed for consideration by the city planning committee.