‘Careless’ task force slammed for neglecting land that could hold 84,000 flats in Hong Kong
Liber Research Community called on the Task Force on Land Supply to study the ‘real conditions and development potential’ of all brownfield areas
More than 84,000 public housing flats could be built on about 730 hectares of New Territories brownfield sites – equivalent to 38 Victoria Parks – which would help ease Hong Kong’s housing problems if the government and its land supply task force had not been “misleading” the public, a concern group said on Thursday.
The group, Liber Research Community, called on the Task Force on Land Supply to study the “real conditions and development potential” of all brownfield areas in Hong Kong, rather than readily accepting a government-commissioned report which concluded that more than 58 per cent of the sites were too “scattered” to use.
The 732 hectares, an area about the same size of Yau Tsim Mong district and mostly located in rural areas of Yuen Long such as Wang Toi Shan, Pat Heung, Wang Chau and Pok Wai South, have not been included in any official development plan.