Access across the land is open from 7am to 7pm, effective Friday (July 1), the company announced with a large sign recently posted at the site.
The sign notes that BBTV claims the land in question through “land deed nos. 6868, 6869, 7828 and 7829”, and is a plaintiff in “the court case red no 1153/2558, 1157/2558-1165/2558 and 1240/2558”.
“Shopowners” named in the “above court cases” will be provided identification to present to security guards who will patrol the area and collect fees from people wanting to cross the land, the sign announced.
Conflict over access to Laem Singh Beach came to a head in 2012, when local residents and “shopowners” protested a corrugated fence installed around the land.
The protesters called in popular graft buster Col Dutsadee Arayawut, at the time the secretary-general of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), to appeal to him to investigate ownership of land. (See story here.)
That call for “justice” was followed by Seri Lapmak, deputy chief of the Kamala Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor), in 2014 noting that bars and other structures on Laem Singh Beach had been ordered to be removed as part of the beach clean-up campaign as ordered by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). (See story here.)
However, sun loungers and umbrellas on Laem Singh Beach could easily be seen from the road today (July 3).