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Written by: Wang Jieen
2021-04-13 20:22
Last update date: 2021-04-13 20:22
There is a shortage of land supply in Hong Kong, and the small house policy has become a difficult problem for Hong Kong.
Development Bureau documents show that since the implementation of the small house policy in 1972, as of December 31 last year, a total of 44,392 small houses have been approved in Hong Kong.
In the past three years, Hong Kong has received a total of 4,339 small house applications, among which the number of applications received and approved is the largest in Yuen Long District.
In addition, the number of complaints and referrals received by indigenous residents about suspected arbitrage has increased fourfold year-on-year last year. Among them, the Yuen Long Lands Office received the most cases, and a total of 444 prosecutions involving small houses were recorded in the past three years. Unauthorized construction incident.
The Development Bureau pointed out that since the implementation of the small house policy in 1972, as of December 31 last year, a total of 44,392 small houses have been approved in Hong Kong.
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444 prosecutions filed in three years of illegal construction of small houses
Statistics show that the government has issued 2,042 removal orders against illegal structures in small houses in the past three years, and 1,149 cases have been corrected.
In addition, the number of prosecutions reached 444.
The bureau also stated that the Buildings Department has been investigating new small houses from village to village to identify illegal structures with serious violations and higher potential risks to building safety.
In 2021, a total of 36 villages were targeted for inspection, of which Yuen Long accounted for 7 villages, the largest proportion.
Approval of 1,600 small houses in three years, 582 applications in Yuen Long
According to the Development Bureau, in the past three years (2018-2020), a total of 4,339 small house applications were received and 1,673 were approved.
Regardless of the number of applications received and approved, the Yuen Long District has the largest number, with 1,694 and 582 respectively. That is, nearly 40% of the more than 4,000 small house applications are from Yuen Long.
In addition, 2,462 applications were rejected within three years, of which Yuen Long accounted for 1,157, or nearly 47% of the total.
As of the end of December last year, there were 7,113 small house applications being processed, and 4,981 pending applications, of which 2,715 involved applications for government land to build small houses in the form of private agreements and land exchanges.
In the past three years, the government has received a total of 1,194 complaints and referrals related to alleged arbitrage by indigenous residents.
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The largest number of government land approved for small houses in Tai Po District
In addition, according to the small house policy, if a male does not have agricultural land, he can ask the government to grant government land to build a house in the form of a private agreement.
Statistics show that from 2016 to 2019, 274 small houses were approved in the past four years, of which Tai Po District accounted for the largest number of cases, reaching 101 cases, followed by 46 cases in Yuen Long.
As for the number of small houses granted in exchange for land, there were a total of 83 cases in the five years (2016 to 2020).
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In the past three years, the government has received a total of 1,194 complaints and referrals related to alleged arbitrage by indigenous residents.
In 2020, there will be a four-fold increase year-on-year, with Yuen Long receiving the most cases.
In addition, the bureau also disclosed in the document that in the past five years, the number of illegal structures that have been cleared reached 129,000, and in 2020 there were only 19,000.
The bureau explained that this was due to the special work arrangements implemented by the Buildings Department in response to the epidemic.
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