Has Anantara Bali got above itself?
DENPASAR – Bali’s new Anantara Resort at Seminyak may be hitting the heights – but for some it may have gone way too high.
According to Bali Update (www.balidiscovery.com) the new Anantara hotel/apartment complex is facing problems with local authorities for ignoring local building codes. The building is alleged to have exceeded the 15-metre height limit.
According to the Bali Post, zoning authorities delivered what is traditionally a third and final “warning” to the builders on February 12, 2008, for violating height requirements and deviating from the building plans submitted to and approved by the government for the project.
The local building authority has asked that those sections of the new luxury apartment/hotel complex that violate the rules be removed.
Explaining the violations, an official said that on the drawings the uppermost part of the structure is depicted as a roofing structure when, in reality, this area is now a public area with its own roof effectively turning a four-storey building into a five-storey structure.
Despite discussions with the building’s owners, who pledged to remedy the top storey of the building, these talks did not include a specific deadline for the modification to be completed.
Bali Update said it is now unclear how investors who have purchased accommodation shares in the managed hotel complex, or guests booked at the property, will be affected by the government’s demand that the roof-top terrace bar – built to rival the one at nearby Ku-De-Ta -be removed.
Ian Jarrett
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