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The Hong Kong Government conducted a comprehensive review of "Urban Renewal Strategy" in 2008. After two years' 'community engagement', the new strategy was promulgated on 24 Feb 2011. Following this review, the stated strategy of the URA is that Hong Kong's urban renewal should follow three major principles: "Putting People first"; "District ...
It provides 484 flats of between 330 and 670 square feet each. Urban renewal in Hong Kong typically involves wholesale demolition of old urban districts and their replacement with high-end commercial and housing developments. Therefore, this project is intended to accommodate residents displaced by urban renewal projects. [10]
In March 2021, the Hong Kong Government has given approval for HKSCL and the Urban Renewal Authority to jointly implement the Tai Hang Sai Estate Redevelopment project. [10] The project will provide 3,300 units upon completion, 1,300 of which will be used for re-housing the original tenants of Tai Hang Sai Estate, and 2,000 to be sold as ...
Sir Chung-kong Chow (Chinese: 周松崗; Jyutping: zau1 cung4 gong1; born 9 September 1950), also known as Chow Chung-kong and C.K. Chow, is a Hong Kong businessman and government appointee. He is currently chairman of the Urban Renewal Authority and is a former non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.
The Development Bureau of Hong Kong was created on 1 July 2007 as part of a governmental reorganisation introduced under Donald Tsang. Responsibility for urban planning, environmental protection, and lands administration originally fell under the Planning, Environment and Lands Bureau when the Hong Kong SAR government was established in 1997.
Video: Construction dust spreading from an inhabited building during government-funded renewal in Tai Po, Hong Kong, 2003. The Urban Renewal Authority is the statutory body responsible for urban renewal in Hong Kong. The Operation Building Bright scheme was launched in 2009 and is subsidised by the government.
This is a list of government agencies of the Hong Kong Government. The policies of the government are formulated decided by the bureaux led by secretaries and permanent secretaries are discussed in the Executive Council and implemented by the departments and agencies.
Hong Kong Housing Society (in English and Chinese) Housing, Planning & Lands Bureau; Urban Renewal Authority; Housing Authority and Housing Department; Hutcheon, Robin (1998). High-rise Society: The First 50 Years of the Hong Kong Housing Society (PDF). Chinese University Press. ISBN 9789622018419