Out of bounds: City Hall says Bangkok int’l school squatting on public land

When Mayta Lerttamrab was a child, he remembers people fishing on the public land behind his family’s Bangkok home, which swelled with water during the wet season. 

Today, the wetland strip and a path once used to traverse the Phra Khanong area just off Pridi Banomyong Road have been replaced by multi-story buildings and a football field. One step off his property now, and Mayta is confronted by the boisterous students of a school that has swallowed up the public land – and refused a city order to return it.

“The school must show responsibility and accountability by returning this public space to its original state where everyone can freely benefit from it again,” Mayta said today.

He has been fighting over the land with St. Andrews International School for well over a year. City officials say the school has ignored their order…