Earlier, the University of Hong Kong applied to the Town Planning Board to rezone a green area on Sassoon Road into a new teaching building, which is mainly equipped with teaching facilities and laboratories.
The land to be rezoned is only 29 meters away from nearby residential buildings, which arouses the concern of local residents.
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The related rezoning issues were first raised in the Southern District Council. At first, there was not much attention. At most, they were worried that the project would affect the traffic in the district.
Southern District Councillor Sima Wen said that since the University of Hong Kong has played an important role in fighting against SARS and the current new crown pneumonia epidemic, most of the public are proud of them. When they heard that the University of Hong Kong needed to build a new medical school building to cultivate more doctors, most of them understood There is not much opinion on the necessity of building a building.
However, when the distribution information of the building's facilities was released, the residents realized that things were not as simple as they thought...
For details, please read the 286th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (October 11, 2021) "
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