reader Posted February 20 Posted February 20 From Bangkok Post City Hall has told 529 stallholders near the clock tower at Chatuchak weekend market they must move out by April 30 to make way for planned redevelopment. The instruction was issued by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's market office. Market office chairman Suksan Kittisupakorn, accompanied by other senior officials, explained the move during a media briefing at the BMA head office on Wednesday. It covered issues of transparency over the management of the weekend market, the refusal to renew the contracts of vendors using the 529 stalls, and guidelines for the further development of the market Vendors at Chatuchak weekend market earlier petitioned Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to investigate the management of the market office over its refusal to renew the contracts of 529 stallholders. Mr Suksan said the vending areas in these zones were not pretty and the pathway area had been reduced to only 9 metres, from the original 19 metres. There had been complaints from shops in the area that their frontages were now obscured behind stalls. There was also poor air circulation, he said. As the contracts for the 529 stallholders expired on Oct 31 last year, the BMA had planned to develop the clock tower area as a new landmark, to draw tourists to the weekend market, he said. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2964115/hundreds-of-vendors-at-chatuchak-market-given-deadline-to-move Quote
