The new "Policy Address" mentions that the northern part of the New Territories will be transformed into a "Northern Metropolis", and the land reclamation plan for Tuen Mun Lung Ketan and Ma Liushui in Sha Tin will be restarted. The North of the New Territories will usher in a "great change."
The Secretary for Development, Wong Wai Lun, quoted an updated version of the "Hong Kong 2030+" planning strategy study today (8th), which is 1.5 times more than the 2016 budget of 1,200 hectares. He explained that the main consideration for estimating inflation is that the people want to "live in big". I hope that if the land supply continues to increase, we can consider increasing the per capita living area of public housing by 10% to 20%. The four-person public housing unit is expected to increase from less than 400 square feet to 480 square feet.
He revealed that apart from adopting the new housing principles for public housing in the "Lantau Tomorrow" under study, he will also study the regulation of the smallest unit area of private buildings.
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Wong Wai Lun said that when the Land Supply Task Force was preparing for the "Hong Kong 2030+" planning strategy study, the society was full of dissatisfaction voices saying "living more and more finer". He described it as a "pain point" of society, and the land supply in the next 10 years will be higher than Demand, it is expected that in the next five years of public housing planning, the per capita living area will increase by 10% to 20%.
He took a four-person public housing unit as an example. He pointed out that the current unit size is less than 400 square feet. If it is increased by 20%, it can increase to 480 square feet, which is nearly 100 square feet. He described the idea as "optimistic" but "total Better than home".
Wong Wai Lun pointed out: To improve the living space to meet the people’s desire to "live in a big place", if the per capita living space is increased by 10%, each person can have 215 square feet, and if it is further increased to 20%, each person can live 237 Square feet.
He mentioned that the per capita living area in Tokyo is 210 square feet, Shanghai is 260 square feet, Singapore is 270 square feet, and Shenzhen is 300 square feet across the river.
He continued that more long-term plans, such as public housing units in the "Lantau Tomorrow" plan under study on Jiaoyizhou, have been planned to increase the per capita living area by 10% to 20%, and the "Northern Metropolis" is still being planned. For land not included in the planning, the growth of the relevant principles will also be taken into consideration.
Wong Wai-lun also mentioned that recently there have been voices in the community requesting the authorities to set the size of the smallest unit in private units or future redevelopment projects. The relevant plan will be considered, but he emphasized that the relevant approach "has more considerations, but we will all "Consider", "I hope that the people of Hong Kong will live in a big place. It's not empty talk, it will be done." I hope the society will give space and time to implement it.
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