The Urban Renewal Authority announced the launch of the second phase of the Kowloon City redevelopment plan last week. There are four historic buildings within the redevelopment area. ".
The latest advice from the Antiquities and Monuments Office states that it is not recommended to grade the building.
According to the document submitted by the Antiquities Office to the Antiquity Council, it is recommended not to grade the "Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau" at 99 Carpenter Road, Kowloon City, which means that this building with a history of more than 70 years will most likely not receive any grades.
The hospital was initiated by the Kowloon City Neighborhood Welfare Association to meet the rapidly increasing demand for community welfare. It was subsequently funded by the businessman Li Yaoxiang and his wife and the government in 1951-52. It was named after Li Yaoxiang's father, Li Kee, and has been in existence for more than 70 years. Historically, it has maintained its medical use.
The "Nah Tsin Wai Road/Car Ping Tat Road" redevelopment project announced by the Urban Renewal Authority last week will also involve the "Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau". The architectural features of the building are conserved, but it has not yet been determined whether it will revitalize the Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau. Now the medical bureau is very likely not to be rated, which means that the future revitalization or reconstruction will not "tie hands and feet".
▼On May 27, the URA announced the launch of the Kowloon City Redevelopment Project▼
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Also proposed not to be rated is "Dapu Danjiawan Chongming School". The school is located on government land. It was built in 1959. It was managed by the diocese at the beginning of the construction. The priest of the chapel left, and the school was temporarily handed over to the authorities. It was not returned to the diocese until after the war. The school gradually withered away. In 1997, the diocese leased the adjacent St. Peter's Chapel and Chongming School to the Christian Lutheran Church as a gospel The drug rehabilitation center was severely damaged by typhoon "Mangkhut" earlier, and the diocese only recovered the site in 2019 and prepared a maintenance plan.
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The remaining three buildings were recommended by the Antiquities Office to be rated as Grade 3 historic buildings, including the village houses No. 24-25, Phoenix Lake, Ta Kwu Ling, which were believed to have been built in the 1920s, and No. 112 Tai Ping Street, Tai O, built in 1937. Chapel" and "Tai Po Sham Chung Three Kings Lai Chao Chapel" built in 1956 are both private properties.
In addition, new progress has been made in the list of 1,444 historic buildings. As early as March 2009, the tenement building of "60 Hollywood Road, Central" proposed to be rated as a Grade II historic building and the tenement building proposed to be rated as a Grade III historic building. "43 Tseng Lan Shu, Sai Kung" village house, the former due to the owner's objection, the latter due to the owner's plan to rebuild the village house, the rating could not be confirmed.
The Antiquities Office stated that after reviewing and discussing the objection letters submitted by the owners, the evaluation team believed that the objection letters did not provide additional and reliable information on the cultural heritage value of the two projects, and therefore suggested maintaining the proposed ratings of the two projects. The Advisory Council was able to confirm the ratings of both projects.
The ground floor is the public welfare real material, bamboo cane water, and the upper floor is the first-generation school building of Hong Kong Wah Yan College
Looking through the information, "60 Hollywood Road, Central" was built in the 1920s. The ground floor shop is one of the landmarks in Central, "Kong Li Zhenzhu Bamboo Cane Water", which is more than 60 years old. The third and fourth floors of the tenement building are even more It is the first-generation school building of Wah Yan College in Hong Kong. It belongs to the first English school opened by Chinese. The architecture combines classical design and geometric decorative art patterns.
The village house "No. 43 Tseng Lanshu in Sai Kung" is the oldest and only remaining traditional village house in the village of the Kau family of the Han family. It was rebuilt in the 1980s, and the "Hakka Mansion" is still in good condition, but it has been abandoned for a long time.
The owner applied for redevelopment in the early years and was approved by the Lands Department. The government once lobbied the owner and provided financial incentives, but the owner still insisted on demolishing and rebuilding the mansion.
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