“Saphan Hin Park is a seaside public park that now needs renovation as it has been delayed because of the content exposure to salt water and the sea air damaging the stone retaining wall,” said Phuket Mayor Somjai Suwansupana on Wednesday. The work started in April this year and will be completed in April, 2018. Saphan Hin is Phuket Town’s most popular public space with mangroves, plenty of green landscaping, activity spaces and a public sports complex with a public swimming pool. Tawee Homhuan, Chief of Phuket Public Works and Town & Country Planning, says that the mangrove walkway in the park will also be renovated with additional lighting to be installed to increase security. “We also planning to put all the electric cables underground in Old Phuket Town, on Phang Nga Rd and Rassada Rd, using a 160 million Baht budget, which is part of a bigger budget of 300-400 million that will be used to bury all cabling in the area.”

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 23, 2017 23:37 UTC