Thread: Pattaya City to shut down a swimming pool that juts into the sea

The Pattaya City plans to take legal action against the owner of a hotel who allegedly built a swimming pool in the sea and to shut down the swimming pool.

Pattaya police earlier issued a summons for the owner of Golden Cliff House hotel located in a soi next to Khao Tamnak, Ms Chanthira Worakulsathien, to show up at the police station on Monday for questioning, but she asked for the postponement of the meeting with the police.

Pol Cpt Wattana Pradit, the enquiry officer in charge of the case, told reporters that Ms Chanthira said the hotel was leased to Mr Watthanan Yimlamai. She also claimed that the swimming pool that juts into the sea was constructed about ten years ago and that she had paid tax properly throughout those years.

Officials of the Marine Department in Pattaya, however, claimed that they had never been aware that the pool juts into the sea covering a total area of 770 square metres and that the area could not be legally claimed.




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Pattaya City orders Golden Cliff House hotel to demolish swimming pool in 45 days

The Pattaya City and the military today shut down the operation of the Golden Cliff House hotel in Pattaya temporarily as it put up an official notice ordering it's owner to demolish the swimming pool and other structures which jut into the sea illegally within 45 days.

Leading the team of Pattaya City officials and soldiers from the 21st Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards to put up the sign was the head of the Pattaya City Mr Chanatpong Sriviset.

The local authorities also sealed off the entrance to the hotel with barrier tape to enforce the order suspending the operation of the hotel on a temporary basis.

The suspension of the hotel service came after authorities found that the owner misused the building as hotel instead of residential purposes as stated in its licence.

The place was licensed as residential building but it was used as hotel instead which is against the Building Control Act 2522.

The suspension of service will be lifted once the owner has applied proper hotel license from local authorities.

The notice ordered the owner to demolish the swimming pool and other structures that were built into the sea within 45 days.

Meanwhile the hotel management today also banned entry by media representatives to observe the place.

It also announced suspension of hotel service temporarily.

Pattaya police earlier issued a summons for the owner of Golden Cliff House hotel located in a soi next to Khao Tamnak, Ms Chanthira Worakulsathien, to show up at the police station on Monday for questioning, but she asked for the postponement of the meeting with the police.

Ms Chanthira said the hotel was leased to Mr Watthanan Yimlamai and also claimed that the swimming pool that juts into the sea was constructed about ten years ago and that she had paid tax properly throughout those years.

Officials of the Marine Department in Pattaya, however, claimed that they had never been aware that the pool juts into the sea covering a total area of 770 square metres and that the area could not be legally claimed.

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Originally Posted by misskit

Ms Chanthira said the hotel was leased to Mr Watthanan Yimlamai and also claimed that the swimming pool that juts into the sea was constructed about ten years ago and that she had paid tax properly throughout those years.

If so, damn....

But if she had been gaming the system, then no sympathy.

Hard to know.

cf the thread about Samed.

Even if she was paying tax that doesn't necessarily mean she thought what she was doing was 'legal' in the strictest sense.

Hard to believe anyone can build a swimming pool reaching into the sea in Pattaya and think it was actually above board, rather than aided by officials on the take.

In other words, having 'all' the papers and paying all the tax does not always equal 'legal' in Thailand. So now the powers that be will of course deny any involvement and it all falls on this 'owners' head.