Legal Opinion:
An illegitimate process to revise the Songkhla’s Comprehensive Plan to facilitate the development of Chana Industrial Zone

ENLAWTHAI Foundation
2 October 2020 

It has been reported that the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning and the Songkhla Provincial Authority has convened a meeting of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee in Songkhla on 28 September 2020. One of the main agendas is the review of the proposed revision of the Ministerial Regulation applied to the Songkhla’s Comprehensive Plan B.E. 2559 pursuant to Section 35 of the Town Planning Act B.E. 2562 (2019) to facilitate the development of the Chana Industrial Zone in Songkhla. It was claimed the move has been made commensurate to the cabinet resolution on 18 August 2020 regarding a summary of meeting of the Committee for Development Strategies in the Southern Border Provinces no. 1/2020 in which the cabinet allows the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning and the Songkhla Provincial Authority to proceed with the plan to utilize land related to private investment in the three Tambons (Tambon Sakom, Talingchan and Na Thap, Chana District, Songkhla) appropriate to the local area and the urgent plan to promote private investment and the outcome of public hearing as proposed by the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC). อ่านต่อ