Residents Make Last Bid To Halt Redevelopment Plan
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2020-06-18 HKT 19:52
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Clarisse Yeung talks to Richard Pyne
District councillors and concern groups representing residents who live near Caroline Hill Road will gather outside the Town Planning Board on Friday, in a last-ditch bid to halt plans for the redevelopment of the site.
The plan is to rezone a plot of land there from ‘government, institutional and community’ (GIC) use to a commercial site, and there are also plans to build the new District Court there.
However, the proposal is fiercely opposed by local residents, who say it will exacerbate traffic problems in the area, and who are worried about losing more open public space.
Clarisse Yeung, chairperson of the Wan Chai district council, said it appears the government is ignoring public views and trying to push the idea through.
“We have been raising [our objections] for years”, she said.
“We have been writing a lot to the Town Planning Board, we have been passing motions to stop this commercial land use on Caroline Hill Road, but the government is just ignoring it, so many of the residents are so angry, and I hope that the Town Planning Board will make a smart choice and listen to the people.”
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