New Town Development in Tung Chung

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New Town Development in Tung Chung

• Jacintha, Lorraine, James, Justin

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Pressure on Greenfield Sites

• A Greenfield site is an area on the edge of a
  city which has never been developed in any way.
• Development and land use changes
• People moving into the edges
• More housing development
• Plans for more new towns
• Road networks being built
• KCR ?West Rail Route
• KCR ?Ma On Shan Rail Route
• Open spaces, now are towns

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Tung Chung New Town

• First new town project in outlying islands
• NW Lantau (Tung Chung and Tai Ho valleys)
• Support the HK Intl Airport
• Projects
• Private Public
• Tung Chung Crescent Yu Tung Court
• Seaview Crescent Fu Tung Estate
• Caribbean Coast Yat Tung Estate
• Coastal Skyline
• New Town was Greenfield site because
• Located in an area that has not been developed
  before
• But there are areas of reclaimed land

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1998
2004
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Development of Tung Chung

• Population to accommodate
• 15,000 in public housing,
• 5000 in private housing.
• Total of 20,000 people.
• In 2011 - Population will be expected to be
  320,000
• Town centers main purpose is to focus on
• Retail
• Commercial
• cultural activities.
• Bus routes are available around the area
• Yu Tung Court has 5 ownership blocks
• Fu Tung Estate has 3 ownership rental housing
  blocks.
• This provides 2,640 home ownerships
• 1664 rental units.
• The total cost 160.2 billion (HKD)

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Why are green field sites under pressure?

• Push factors

• Why people what to move out of the city
• Limited space in urban areas
• Expensive land
• High pollution

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Pull Factors

• Why people like to reside in Greenfield sites
• Cheaper land
• More space
• More apartments
• Jobs
• Good transport routes, that provide for elderly
  and the disabled.
• Many private estates
• Facilities

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Benefits

• New housing
• Shopping Malls
• Recreation Centres
• Job Opportunities
• Accessibility for locals
• New roads and bridges
• MTR
• Bus
• Close to the countryside
• Less pollution
• Convenience for crew working in the airport
• Connects to the proposing Hong Kong-Zhuhai- Macau
  Bridge
• ? 2008

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Problems

• Environmental Impacts
• Loss of 2 valleys
• Reclamation of land
• Changing landscape
• Leads to extinction of animal species
• Increase pollution
• More infrastructures
• Social Impacts
• Too far away from CBD
• Have Accessibility
• ...BUT
• Expensive fees
• Especially when there are a lot of public housing

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Conclusion

• Residents of new towns live comfortably
• HK plans to build more new towns
• Transport links
• The future may be self contained towns
• Evidence that this future may come to pass.

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