Hong Kong pressure group calls on Chief Executive Carrie Lam to take back all of Fanling golf course and reconsider Lantau island plan amid protest turmoil
- Housing group expresses doubt city leader’s plan to create artificial islands could be achieved amid ongoing protest crisis
- Separately, pro-Beijing party calls on government to speed up land resumption in rural areas
A Hong Kong advocacy group has called on the government to increase housing by taking over all of an exclusive golf course, expressing doubt that the city leader’s ambitious plan to create artificial islands would be achieved amid the ongoing protest crisis.
Man Yu-ming, chairman of the Federation of Public Housing Estates, said on Wednesday that
about 30,000 housing units could be built if the whole of Fanling golf course was taken back by the city, rather than 20 per cent of site as has been proposed.
A pro-establishment political party, meanwhile, suggested officials speed up land resumption in rural areas.
The recommendations were made as Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor focuses on her policy address in October, with housing among her main topics. No date has been set for Lam’s third policy address, unlike in previous years.
Lantau Tomorrow Vision was announced by Lam in her policy speech last year. The plan is to build a housing hub on land reclaimed from the sea – in the form of man-made islands – off Lantau.
