Compromise Mahakan plan ‘possible’
In what appears to be a compromise to the long-standing Mahakan Fort conflict, a panel under the Committee for the Conservation of Rattanakosin says it is open to new resolutions to the land dispute which may include an alternative plan to allow the old community to remain. Borvornvate Rungrujee, chairman of a sub-committee tasked with the conservation of Rattanakosin old city, said he “does not oppose” a plan that will accommodate people doomed to be evicted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in a move to turn the five-rai area into a public park. Earlier, the BMA claimed that it could not abandon the park plan drawn up in 1992 by the Committee for the Conservation of Rattanakosin.
