Plan for green-belt site misses wood for the trees: campaigners
Forest could be fung shui wood in 20 years, says campaigner - but government is planning flats
A regenerating forest of 3,000 mature trees will be killed if the government insists on rezoning a green-belt site in Tai Po to build flats, a green group says.
"If the trees were left untouched for a decade they would form a secondary forest and might become a fung shui wood in another decade," the association's assistant campaign manager, Roy Ng Hei-man, said.
The site was put into the government land sales programme this year before rezoning approval had been granted by the Town Planning Board.
Aimed at creating a private development with 620 flats in seven-storey buildings, the plan is being exhibited by the board for public consultation until next Wednesday.
Ng called for a tree survey, saying the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department had understated the importance of the site when advising the Planning Department on the rezoning proposal.