Hong Kong's Occupy Central looked at taking over more sites, said founder Benny Tai

Occupy Central considered taking over Queensway and Causeway Bay in their original plan, although in the end it was the protesters who seized those areas spontaneously - one of them for only a short period of time.

Occupy organiser Benny Tai Yiu-ting revealed this in an interview with the Post last week.

The plan of the co-founders, as revealed earlier, was to hold a march from Victoria Park to Chater Road on October 1 and then camp on Chater Road overnight. They expected police to take action on October 3 following a two-day public holiday.

However, the scheme was actually more than that.

"At that time we were waiting for police to grant us a letter of no objection for the march. We decided that if police refused to do so, we would dash out from Victoria Park and sit on the road outside the Sogo department store and also Queensway in Admiralty," he said.

The founders also imagined occupying Connaught Road from Chater Road if police took no action to clear them.