Fairview Park (Hong Kong)
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Fairview Park (Chinese: 錦綉花園; Jyutping: gam2 sau3 faa1 jyun2; Cantonese Yale: gám sau fā yúhn) is a substantial private residential estate in the Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is unusual in Hong Kong for consisting of freestanding houses, rather than flats.
History
Fairview Park was built in 1976 by Canadian Overseas Development (加拿大海外發展有限公司).
The development of Fairview Park on
Features
The estate covers an area of 1,160,000 square metres (12,500,000 sq ft) and comprises 5,024 houses. There are 13 different types of house, ranging in size from 79 to 157 square metres (850 to 1,690 sq ft). Each house has a front and back garden as well as a car port. There is a 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq ft) artificial lake. Fairview Park has its own sewage treatment plant, the end product of which is used for watering vegetation, cleaning streets within the estate and providing a source of water for the nearby
Demographics
In the
Education
Fairview Park is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 74. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and one government school: Yuen Long Government Primary School (元朗官立小學).[3]
Access Road Controversy
Fairview Park is a rare example of a self-contained gated community in Hong Kong, linked to the outside world by Fairview Park Boulevard, which despite being a private road has long been opened to the public; its heavy use by nearby villagers and businesses eventually became a source of controversy.
Accident
On 31 January 2007, a 12-year-old pupil riding his bike to school was run over and killed by a large truck at Fairview Park Boulevard. Fairview Park residents accused the Hong Kong Government of delaying the opening of the recently built Kam Pok Road (which bisects Fairview Park Boulevard near the Fairview Park gate) which cost roughly $10 million. This delay, they said, has resulted in Fairview Park Boulevard being turned into a major traffic thoroughfare.
On 2 February 2007, Fairview Park residents attended a special meeting organised by the Yuen Long District Council in which the
Clashes
Kam Pok Road was opened to traffic by the Transport Department on 5 February 2007. By noon that day,
See also
References
- ^ Dwyer, D. J. (July 1986). "Land Use and Regional Planning Problems in the New Territories of Hong Kong". The Geographical Journal. 152 (2): 232–242.
- ^ "Major Housing Estates". 2016 Population By-census. Census and Statistics Department.
- ^ "POA School Net 74" (PDF). Education Bureau. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ MingPao new article in Chinese
- ^ RTHK Radio 1's HK2000 phone-in audio[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cable TV news
- ^ RTHK news article
- ^ "RTHK news article". Archived from the original on 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
- ^ Hong Kong Standard news article
- ^ RTHK Radio 1's HK2000 phone-in audio[permanent dead link]
Further reading
- Lai, David C.Y. (1978). "Chapter X: The Tai Shang Wai Housing Project Controversy". In Hill, R.D.; Bray, Jennifer M. (eds.). Geography and the Environment in Southeast Asia: Proceedings of the Geology Jubilee Symposium, The University of Hong Kong, 21-25 June 1976. ISBN 9789622090095.
- Nissim, Roger (2020). The First Estates: The Story of Fairview Park and Hong Lok Yuen with Documents. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789888528257.
- Dewolf, Christopher (13 March 2022). "Fairview Park: Living the Dream in Hong Kong Suburbia". Zolima City Magazine.
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