Wharf (Holdings) has suffered a setback in its plan to build the SAR's largest hotel on its Wharf Cable Tower South site in Tsuen Wan.
The Town Planning Board yesterday rejected the developer's proposed 1,400-room hotel project, considering it incompatible with the surrounding industrial buildings.
Wharf had proposed the hotel would rise 44 storeys above a four-level podium, providing a total floor area of 599,000 square feet on the 66,528 sq ft site.
The site, at 54 to 64 Chai Wan Kok Road next to the existing Wharf Cable Tower North, has already been cleared. Wharf has a previously approved plan to develop an industrial-office building there.
A planning board spokesman said the surrounding area of the site should be retained as an industrial area so the proposed hotel development was rejected.
While the planning board had approved some hotel developments in other areas of Tsuen Wan, the spokesman said those projects were between residential buildings and industrial properties.
