District councillor Amy Yung Wing-sheung has vowed to press on with her battle to secure more places for Discovery Bay residents in the enclave's new ESF school.
The Civic Party councillor met Deputy Secretary for Education Bernadette Linn Hon-ho earlier this year to ask for changes to admission rules for Discovery College, but was told there was nothing the Education Bureau could do.
A second meeting was postponed last month because Ms Yung was a candidate in the Legislative Council elections. She is now hoping to expand the meeting to include officials from the planning and lands departments and hold it next month. 'I am collecting information from the lands and planning departments and I am now compiling a case,' she said.
'The school has over 10 management units but they pay the same management fee as me. We have security guards to direct the traffic who are paid for by Discovery Bay residents. They charge a very high tuition fee and they are just like a commercial enterprise.
'Quite a lot of Discovery Bay children can't even get a place there and they have to take the ferry to go to Hong Kong at a very young age. Why do we have to subsidise a commercial enterprise which benefits people outside Discovery Bay?'
But ESF chief executive Heather Du Quesnay said the ESF was not allowed to restrict admission to local pupils and the site was too small to accommodate everyone.