Lam Tin Residents Rally For Waterfront Park Plan

Some 60 residents from Lam Tin protested ahead of a meeting of the Town Planning Board, to oppose the authority’s plan to build a campus by the harbourfront there.

The board is expected to rule on the proposal of whether Vocational Training Council is allowed to use about four hectares of land at Cha Kwo Ling harbourfront for a new campus.

But the group said the government had earlier pledged to reserve the area for an open park and demanded the authority to keep its words.

The group’s spokesman, Fred Tse, said it’s important to free up the land for a waterfront park, instead of just having a seaside promenade that the government now proposes.

"This is the only waterfront park for more than 700,000 people in Kwun Tong. And this is the only one. So we have to strike for it," he said.