Sea view of Discovery Bay flat doomed before developer sold it, court told
But plans for new project were still up in the air when woman bought HK$17m home, court told
A developer was already planning another project that would block the sea views of its new luxury Discovery Bay development when it sold one of the flats to a Canadian-Chinese entrepreneur, a court heard yesterday.
Yang Dandan is suing the Hong Kong Resort Company for several million dollars for the subsequent loss of the value of her flat on the top floor of the Chianti building.
Her lawyer, Albert Yau, said the developer filed three plans to the Buildings Department between June and November 2007 asking for permission to construct a new project - later known as the Amalfi - with three blocks of up to 16 storeys.
The court was previously told that Yang bought her 1,667 sq ft Chianti flat for HK$17.2 million in December 2007. She said both the brochure and the salesperson told her the new development in front of her flat would be a "mid-rise" or garden house project.
The developer's general manager Cheung Ho-koon explained yesterday that the company planned two projects together in 2007. One of them was the Amalfi and the other one was phase 16, which is still being built.
"If we designed [Amalfi] and phase 16 again, [Amalfi] might have been houses. There is such a possibility," Cheung said.
He said the Chianti brochure that Yang had relied on was drafted in 2005 and reprinted in 2006.