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Letters | Build flats on Fanling golf course? How many more blocks can north Hong Kong take?
- So many projects have been given the go-ahead in the area that planners should be wary of carving up the district’s green lungs
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I read with interest the letter from Iain Leighton on the Hong Kong government’s plans to build on the Fanling golf course (“Rethink carving up Fanling golf course, for the sake of history”, February 26).
While I have zero interest in golf and have never played in my life, I appreciate having the green space full of trees and wildlife in my district and even have relatives living nearby who are non-members but are allowed to play on the course free of charge.
There are many other options for land supply such as brownfield sites, rezoning industrial sites, reclamation, using old army sites and freeing up land held by developers. I do not think the answer is to destroy nature and an important lung in North District.
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Moreover there are already several big developments underway in the area, such as the redevelopment of Ma Shi Po village, a huge development at Queens Hill (ex Police Tactical Unit), residential buildings at the Lin Tong (Liantang) border crossing and many other developments in the surrounding villages.
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