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Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor laid down the blueprint for the Northern Metropolis in her 2021 policy address. The scheme, repackaged and expanded from an existing new town plan, involves the development of an IT hub in northern New Territories near the border with mainland China, construction of up to 186,000 homes and a new cross-border railway linking the city to the Qianhai economic zone in Shenzhen.
The plan, which would take 20 years to deliver, is seen as a major strategic change for development, moving the city's centre away from Hong Kong Island to the north, to integrate the city into the latest national development plan.
As the city government pushes ahead with the Northern Metropolis development, the need to strike an environmental balance has become all the more important.
Relaxed conditions on land exchanges should boost Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis project and extension of land premium scheme is also welcome.
- Advisory Council on the Environment unanimously endorses report on the San Tin Technopole with eight conditions
- Green groups earlier urged it to reject study, saying it contains inaccurate information and may be subject to legal challenges
The Post examines green groups’ concerns about San Tin Technopole ahead of crucial meeting of government environmental advisers on Monday.
Education Bureau says one academic institution wants to set up international branch to offer self-financed joint programmes with top overseas university partners.
Legislators call for shake-up after series of voltage dips in recent months resulted in hundreds of people becoming trapped in lifts.
Readers discuss Hong Kong’s plans for an information and technology zone at the northern border, the proposed monthly firework displays, crowds on a bus route popular with tourists, and the need for a better strategy to promote the city.
President Alexander Wai says university will move campus to academic town in Northern Metropolis after governing body agrees ‘in principle’ to plan.
InvestHK head of business and professional services Herman Tse Yu-man says more foreign investments are expected in the coming year.
Development chief Bernadette Linn also says Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation works delay will not upset wider strategy to provide 410,000 homes over next 10 years.
PolyU chief says 2.5 million population of Northern Metropolis will need a hospital, highlights university’s strengths in healthcare and artificial intelligence.
Announcement of delay to artificial islands mega project made amid city’s expected fourth deficit exceeding HK$100 billion in five years.
Readers discuss where Hong Kong’s development priorities should lie this year, and a football match that lifted spirits
Legco hears evaluation study on east-west link in New Territories expected to take 38 months and cost HK$1.13 billion.
Baptist University president says it would be prepared to move all or part of its campus from prime Kowloon Tong site to Northern Metropolis.
The loss in park space includes 90 hectares of fish ponds to be filled for the San Tin Technopole project, a development aimed at attracting tech firms to Hong Kong.
Development minister Bernadette Linn says authorities considering outsourcing part of project to private developers as way to reduce financial burden on government.
Development officials lay out details of funding appeal at Legislative Council for 263-hectare second phase of Hung Shui Kiu-Ha Tsuen project.
‘We think the government’s ‘development first, conservation later’ approach is not a matter of priority, but a revolving door for destruction,’ campaigner says.
Standard rates to be applied to Hong Kong’s New Territories farmland to speed up housing land acquisition and housing development.
A HK$10 billion property development venture in the city’s Northern Metropolis indicated Beijing-controlled China Resources Land’s support for Hong Kong’s economic development, the chief of the state-backed company said.
The state-controlled conglomerate joined forces with Hong Kong’s New World Development on a venture worth US$1.28 billion in the city’s Northern Metropolis mega project, according to sources familiar with the matter.
On final day of trip to Beijing, Chief Executive John Lee visits country’s top economic planning body after earlier briefing state leaders on Hong Kong’s development.
Green group disagrees with authorities’ view that new wetland parks will compensate for ecological loss.
Finance minister points to Northern Metropolis as prime example of ‘long-term stable investments’ sought by Middle Eastern nations.
