The Buildings Department promised to investigate illegal structures on a property owned by a DAB lawmaker - the third such case exposed by the media recently.
Wong Yung-kan, of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, admitted yesterday that a glasshouse was built on the roof of his three-storey village house in Tai Po a few years ago. He said he did not know it was illegal.
Wong is the third DAB lawmaker found to have unauthorised structures at their village houses in the past week, after Chan Kam-lam and Cheung Hok-ming.
Wong said the glasshouse was designed to reduce heat in the building and functioned as a store room.
'The construction company I hired to build the glasshouse said it was alright to have it on the roof, as long as no one lives in it,' Wong, who represents the agriculture and fisheries sectors, said. 'Many houses in the village have similar structures ... if the government thinks it's not right to have such structures, they should have told us earlier.'
A department spokeswoman said officials would go to the village and study documents. 'If necessary, we will take action against the illegal structures according to current rules,' she said.