Group objects to plan for radio facility
A group of Peng Chau residents submitted a petition to the government yesterday, objecting to plans by a private radio station to erect a radio transmitter on a hill on the island.
The transmitter is for a radio station planned by former Commercial Radio host Albert Cheng King-hon. Mr Cheng was this year granted a 12-year licence to run a 24-hour Cantonese-language AM channel. It is expected to begin operation in autumn next year.
The group had gathered about 1,500 signatures from residents and visitors.
Chan Chi-lin, the group's co-ordinator, said they learnt recently from a notice posted at the proposed site on Finger Hill that transmission facilities comprising two buildings and a 100-metre-tall antenna mast would be erected at the site.
A spokeswoman for the Lands Department said it had not approved the radio station's tenancy application, and public consultations would continue until the end of this week.
The department received the application for a short-term tenancy in August and approved ground investigation works, which finished recently. It will consider residents' objections and seek comments from other departments, the spokeswoman added.