【Ya Tsin Wai Road / Car Ping Tat Road / Kowloon City Market Redevelopment】In May this year, the Urban Renewal Authority announced the launch of the Kowloon City "Ya Tsin Wai Road / Car Ping Tat Road" development plan.
The latest documents show that the Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau, which has stood in Kowloon City for more than 70 years, will not be retained, and the current site will be rebuilt into a 41-storey residential building, while only 3 of the 4 pre-war tenement buildings within the redevelopment site will be restored. Reservation, but further research will be needed to determine whether the whole building will be retained, or the valuable parts will be retained.
The document also shows that the private building "Yu.menqian" that has not been included in the redevelopment scope and is less than ten years old will be surrounded by the "U-shaped" platform of the newly built residential building, and will be surrounded by residential buildings nearly 20 stories high. This means that the current relatively open landscape of the "Gomen Front" will disappear.
Looking through the information of the Town Planning Board, among the 208 public comments received, more than half of them came from corporations and residents of the "Royal Gate Front", criticizing the proposed development for blocking the view of the building, and worrying that the proposed redevelopment plan would make the area unique to the area. "Little Thailand" and Teochew culture collapsed.
The Planning Department has expressed its support for the redevelopment plan. The Town Planning Board will meet tomorrow (7th) to discuss the redevelopment plan.
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According to the documents submitted by the URA to the Town Planning Board, the redevelopment plan of "Nah Tsin Wai Road/Car Ping Tat Road" will be divided into three main sites, among which the main sites that will be redeveloped into residential buildings are located at Ya Tsin Long Road and Nga Tsin Wai Road In the area of and South Point Road, including the site currently located in the area of the Kowloon City Administration Building, 7 residential buildings will be constructed at a plot ratio of 8 times, and a plot ratio of 1 time will be reserved for the construction of non-residential buildings. In other words, the total plot ratio will be 9 The height of the building ranges from 143 meters to 160 meters. It is expected to be 38 to 41 floors high, far exceeding the current 3 to 8 storeys, which means that Kowloon City will change dramatically, and many high-rise buildings will stand.
The newly built residential building is nearly 40 stories high and surrounded by a U-shaped building.
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Located in the center of the site and occupied in 2014, "Yu.Menqian" will not be affected by this redevelopment plan. According to the development plan, it is proposed to develop the podium of the residential building, with a height of 4 floors, which will surround the "Yu.Menqian" in a U-shape. ”, while the new building is 38 stories high, which is more than ten stories higher than the current 24-storey “Yu.Menqian”. There will also be other new residential buildings nearby. range occlusion.
It is worth noting that this redevelopment project is the first time that the URA has implemented the development concept of "transferring plot ratio", that is, using the plot ratio of the site adjacent to Kai Tak Gateway Plaza to transfer it to the main site in the area that is now the Kowloon City Council Building. , for the construction of higher-rise residential buildings.
According to the documents of the Town Planning Board, government land accounts for 62% of the main site to be redeveloped into residential buildings, and only 38% is private land. In total, the government land accounts for about 71.67% of the three sites. In other words, the entire project, private land only accounts for 71.67%. 28.3%.
Only the cornerstone and stele will be preserved by the Lee Ji Memorial Medical Bureau
The Antiquities Advisory Committee passed a meeting earlier that it would not rate the more than 70-year-old "Lee Kee Memorial Medical Board", which has caused the outside world to worry that the historically valuable medical board will be wiped out.
According to the documents of the Town Planning Board, the current site of the Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau will be rebuilt into a residential building, but the cornerstone and stele of the medical bureau will be preserved to demonstrate its historical value, but the final plan remains to be studied.
A 6,600-square-meter land will be allocated in Carpenter Road Park for the construction of a new government complex. The building is expected to be 14 storeys high. Lee Kee Memorial Medical Bureau, Kowloon City Council Building and Kowloon City Lions Student Health Service Center will all be relocated to this building. , In addition to the above three facilities, the building will also include a public library, LCSD gymnasium, etc., and there will be a basement car park.
Included in the redevelopment area of Kowloon City, the AMO does not recommend grading the Lee Kee Memorial Medical Council with a history of more than 70 years
Three pre-war tenement buildings preserved
In addition, there are also three pre-war tenement buildings within the redevelopment area, which are located at Nos. 36 and 38 Yaqian Long Road, No. 44 and 46 Yaqian Long Road, and No. 68 Yaqian Wai Road. The URA is also in the document. It was mentioned that the three tenement buildings mentioned above are planned to be preserved in order to maintain the historical atmosphere of the Kowloon City area, but it is not known whether the entire building will be preserved.
As for No. 59 Yaqian Long Road, which is also a pre-war building, the document does not mention its future destination.
▼On May 27, the URA announced the launch of the Kowloon City Redevelopment Project▼
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In addition, the URA said earlier that it will provide shops and street activities on both sides of the streets of the main site to enhance the local characteristics of the "Street Food and Cultural District", and a market square will also be set up opposite the new government complex.
Ya Chien Long Road and Nam Kok Road closed to pedestrian zone
It is worth noting that the traffic lanes of Ya Chien Long Road and Nan Kok Road will be closed, that is, they will be "killed" like Lee Tung Street. The documents show that these two roads will be turned into pedestrian areas with a width of at least 18 meters. The passage will be open to the public 24 hours a day.
The Town Planning Board received 206 comments on this redevelopment plan, of which at least 118 were objections, accounting for 57% of the total, mainly from the owners' corporations, tenants and owners of the "Royal Gate Front", as well as the Changchun Society, including criticism. The existing redevelopment plan will obscure the landscape of the "Royal Gate Front" and neighboring houses, worrying that the existing neighbor and community relationship will be disrupted, and urge the URA to preserve the unique "Little Thailand" and Teochew culture in the area; there are also Opinions were dissatisfied with the URA's repeated practice of "killing streets" and turning public roads into private roads, fearing that it would exacerbate the current traffic congestion in the area.
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