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Phuket property The Village, Coconut Island could face legal action

Phuket, Thailand  According to a report in the Phuket Gazette, Phuket home advancement The Village, Coconut Island could be facing legal action for infringing Thai environmental and licensing laws.

A complaint filed by nearby residents at Phuket Provincial Hall final week stated that The Village was releasing untreated waste water into the sea.

The matter was followed up personally by Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkhaosutthirak who visited the island final week with a thirty person inspection team.

The Village's Managing Director, Christopher Gordon, refuted the allegations stating "All of the villas have their personal [sewage remedy]. These all connect up to the central system. The wastewater is absolutely treated before it is released to the sea. It is a Thai-government accepted technique."

But, after more inspection, the Phuket Vice Governor remained unconvinced, commenting "I understand that the project is on-going. We will need a group to return and inspect the project as soon as it is completed," he stated.

In the course of the inspection, sudden and prolonged rainfall exposed that huge quantities of silt were running off the construction website and immediately into the sea.

Additional investigation showed that the The Village's Environmental Influence Assessment Report had stipulated that the project should have a 13,000 square metre enclosure to trap any silt and let the sediment to settle prior to releasing the water into the sea.

Christopher Gordon has now been offered up to one particular month to set up the enclosure. The Vice Governor mentioned that failure to do so will end result in legal action currently being taken against the resort.

Even though Thai law states that this should have been performed before any building perform was carried out, Gordon responded by saying "Please give me some time. I cannot do it all in a single day."

An additional place of concern for the Phuket Vice Governor was The Village's hotel license, or rather a lack thereof.

Gordon has been renting out Jacuzzi suites in the project's second phase, which is nonetheless incomplete. But to comply with legislation the development must have a hotel license to do so.

"The homes will not be a difficulty due to the fact they are below the Land Development Act. But opening some elements for guests to rent out daily, and in the middle of the construction, must be regarded as as operating a hotel business. We would like to propose that you apply for a hotel license in order to let guests keep nightly, weekly or whatever, legally. You may possibly not entirely comprehend Thai law, but what you are doing is risky - it can be construed as contravening the Hotel Act," Vice Governor Somkiet warned.

Christopher Gordon agreed to attend to each concerns raised by the Phuket Vice Governor. Nevertheless, it remains unclear why the developer did not comply with the law from the beginning. Coconut Village Resort Phuket [l]