Understanding Floor area Ratio (FAR)

Floor area ratio means the ratio between the total building area and land plot area. City planning laws were enforcement as the Town and City Planning Act since year 1975 (2518BE). Bangkok area had implemented City Planning law under Ministerial regulation Act no 116 . The  first law came year 1992. The laws  are revised and revamped every 5 years. …

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Impact from new Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Land Use

Since we had first BMA land use implemented in year 1992 until today, the law has been controlled use of land and size of building with public road width. BMA land use has split use of land to major activity, minor activity and prohibits activity. Building use that match to major activity has no control of public road width under …

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