CHON BURI: The Pattaya City municipality has given the owner of Sukhawadee House, a luxury beachfront mansion and tourist attraction in Pattaya, 15 days to demolish a large building in its compound for encroachment on public land after a provincial committee turned down its appeal.
Pattaya City municipality deputy clerk Kiarttisak Sriwongchai yesterday led municipal officials to affix the Chon Buri provincial panel's appeal result and the Pattaya municipality's announcement in front of Building A in the compound of Baan Sukhawadee, or Sukhawadee House, in tambon Na Klua of Bang Lamung district.
Building A was built on an 11-rai plot reclaimed from the sea. It forms part of the 80-rai plot on which Sukhwadee House stands.
The municipality earlier ordered the demolition of Building A and two other buildings -- Building B and Building C -- at Sukhawadee House after one of the buildings was found to be encroaching on public land and the two others were built without permission.
Health Food International (Thailand) Co had appealed to the Chon Buri provincial panel against the Pattaya City municipality's demolition order, claiming it was unlawful and unjust.
The firm argued the land on which one of its buildings was built was not public land as alleged, but was part of its land plot issued with a land title deed.
However, the provincial panel rejected the appeal on the grounds the appeal letter did not have the company stamp, although it was signed by two women who were committee members of the firm. The Sukhawadee estate is owned by Panya Chotitawan.