Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor proposed in the 2019 Policy Address to develop three squatter villages in the urban area: Cha Kwo Ling Village, Niu Chi Wan Village and Zhuyuan Lianhe Village.
Among them, the Cha Kwo Ling Village Villagers Association and companies that hold part of the private land in the village have applied to the Town Planning Board for rezoning since last year and put forward a land exchange proposal to return part of the private land to the government to develop public housing in exchange for the construction of private land in the seaside area. Residential.
The plan was originally rejected by the Town Planning Board last year. After that, the villagers reduced the number of units they could provide by 11% to 4,984 units and applied for review.
The Town Planning Board held a meeting today (20th) and decided to reject the application.
The Cha Kwo Ling Village Villagers Association and companies that hold part of the private land in the village applied to the Town Planning Board for rezoning last year and put forward a land exchange proposal to return part of the private land to the government to develop public housing in exchange for the construction of private housing in the coastal area.
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The document shows that the Planning Department believes that the government has started a study on the area of land classified as "undetermined use" to plan the development of public housing and other facilities. If the relevant rezoning application is approved, the overall planning of the area will be undermined.
In addition, the Planning Department believes that the applicant has failed to show the technical feasibility of the proposed project. Therefore, the Planning Department recommends that the application for rezoning be rejected.
The city planning committee held a meeting today to discuss it, and ultimately rejected the application.
The Cha Kwo Ling Village Villagers Association and the company that holds part of the private land in the village applied to the Town Planning Board for rezoning in 2020 and proposed a land exchange to return part of the private land in Cha Kwo Ling Village to the government to develop public housing in exchange for the seafront Lots to build private residences.
The initial proposal will consist of 5 public housing units, involving about 5,319 units; while the coastal land will be constructed with 2 private buildings, which are expected to provide 324 units, or a total of 5,643 units.
After the plan was rejected by the Town Planning Board in September last year, the applicant submitted a review.
They reduced the number of units available in the plan to 4,984 units, of which 4,660 units minus the number of public housing units, while the number of private housing units remained at 324 units.
According to the proposal proposed by the Civil Engineering and Development Department in July this year, 3 hectares of land including the "Undecided Use" and "Green Belt" where Cha Kwo Ling Village is located is proposed to be rezoned to "Residential (Type A)" and developed at a plot ratio of 9 times , It is estimated that 6 public housing estates can be built, providing about 4,500 units, and they can be occupied as early as 2031.
Together with the second phase of the adjacent former kaolin mine development project, the two projects are expected to provide a total of 6,750 public housing units.
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