A plan to renovate an underused park in Wan Chai is in jeopardy because the MTR Corporation is considering using it as a storage site for construction material.
The 40,000 sq ft public garden in Harbour Road, among other parks, has been identified as a potential site as a works area for the Sha Tin-Central rail link.
This would end plans by China Resources Property to renovate the park, sited immediately behind its office tower.
Although the MTR Corp will only use the park temporarily, the railway construction work will not be completed until 2019.
The property management and development company built the park 25 years ago under the requirements of its land lease, then returned it to the government to manage.
It now wanted to transform the old park at a cost of about HK$20 million, the company's managing director, Winson Chow, said.
'We would return the park to the government to manage. We are doing this just out of corporate social responsibility,' he said.
