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Article from . Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, will be announced next Wednesday its first policy address, the supply of land and housing will be a "top priority". It has been revealed, Leung Chun-ying in the policy report, will be covered in the short, medium and long term measures to increase the supply of land, including the Government, Institution or Community land use research to change the 36 original planning, even the mosquito type to "hold However, in order to increase the supply of land and housing in the short term. Meanwhile, the authorities plan to announce this year in the final planning of the development program of the Northeast New Territories, by increasing the plot ratio to increase the number of public housing and HOS, and will introduce the Victoria Harbour reclamation site to increase housing supply in the medium and long term.
Leung Chun-ying has been emphasizing since assuming its top priority of his tenure policy to solve the housing problem. According to sources, his term of office, the first policy address announced next week, from the short, medium and long-term intensify offer land, "almost 18 districts has a housing program", to make available for the construction of a significant increase in the number of residential land, representing The previous government, including the SAR government proposed 36 lots of the Government, Institution or Community, which will review the 27 hectares for housing purposes, such as golf course plan in Lai Chi Kok Road, Sham Shui Po, will change for housing purposes, but yet to determine public housing or HOS. The authorities will also examine the possibility of the 57 hectares of green areas converted to housing use.
Mountain View Village, adjacent to the construction of a single-block HOS
In the same time, the Administration has also seen it fit to the urban "mini-land", the construction of single blocks of public housing or HOS. Reportedly, the government is considering a plot of land for the construction of single-block estates, including only 0.25 hectares, only a quarter of a football field sized Shan King Estate, Tuen Mun, next to land. The over 30-storey Single HOS authorities plan to build on the land, about 250 units. The other a "mini-land" is only 0.77 hectares, over 15 more than two decades, treasure Tamura adjacent to land vacant, the authorities consider to be built on a more than 30 layers of public housing, 690 units.
In the long run, the North East New Territories is an important new residential places. It is reported that the development of the northeast New Territories is expected to announce the final year planning program, and whether it will increase the plot ratio of the land, in order to build more public housing and HOS reclamation compared with other long-term direction to increase land supply, the message refers to Speaking at the policy report will mention some viable reclamation site can be reclaimed area of more than 500 hectares, was built behind the house can accommodate more than 30,000 of Lung Kwu Tan and Siu Ho Wan, Lantau Island, and would carry out consultation.
Old public housing redevelopment can live more
Michael Choi, a member of the Long Term Housing Strategy will, said in a media interview yesterday, Hong Kong rely on long-term reclamation and development of new towns, a two-pronged approach in order to increase the supply of land to meet housing needs. PRH Federation has put forward, the HA should make the best use of the land left vacant former factory buildings, build more public housing as soon as possible, such as HA Kwun Tong Resettlement factory buildings demolished in 2008, the land was returned to the Government has been idle for many years, the initial estimate of the site to be built on a minimum of 800 to 1,000 units, but also suggest that the HA clearance of old short, less public housing tenants, reconstruction plot ratio higher, more people to live public housing.
