Plan to build homes on Hong Kong’s exclusive Fanling golf course gets government backing
- Executive Council endorses most controversial land supply option from a task force report on Tuesday morning
- Government estimates city will need 1,200 hectares over the next 30 years
Part of Hong Kong’s showpiece golf course will be taken over for housing as the government has decided to accept all eight recommendations by an official task force on easing the city’s land supply crunch.
Sources told the Post on Tuesday that the government’s top advisers in the Executive Council had endorsed all the options suggested by the Task Force on Land Supply, of which one of the most controversial was developing 32 hectares of the 172-hectare Fanling site run by the Hong Kong Golf Club.
A government source said officials had decided to act on the task force’s recommendation because of the acute shortage of land for housing.
“The administration notes that during the public engagement there was strong opinion against reserving the site for a small number of club members, while there are so many people who can’t afford a decent flat,” the source said. “It’s a difficult decision made by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.”