Calls for HK$3.5 million angling zone in Tamar Park to be widened
The 200-square-metre area off Tamar Park is to open to the public in March next year
The government’s plan to use 200 square metres of Central Promenade to build a fishing zone should be widened, two members of a panel assessing the harbour’s development said on Wednesday.
Their comments came a day after the Leisure and Cultural Services Department handed a detailed plan to Central and Western District Council for a trial scheme first mooted by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in his policy address in January.
The zone in Central will open to the public in March next year. It is at the tip of Tamar Park in Admiralty, north of the Legislative Council complex.
Workers will start installing it in October at a cost of around HK$3.5 million, with planned running costs of around HK$900,000 per year. It will have tables, wash basins and storage.
The government will make similar zones in Tsing Yi and at Pak Shek Kok Promenade, Tai Po.
But members of the Harbourfront Commission, a body supported by the government to oversee planning, development and management of Victoria Harbour, expressed doubts over the plan’s efficacy.