Tai Po New Town

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This article is about the planned town project. For the neighbourhood in general, see Tai Po. For the whole administrative district, see Tai Po District.

Tai Po New Town
大埔新市鎮
UTC+8
Tai Po New Town
Hanyu Pinyin
Dàbùshì
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDaaih bou síh
JyutpingDaai6 bou3 si5

Tai Po New Town, or Tai Po Town, is a

indigenous villages that located on the Lam Tsuen Valley as well as west of those villages in Ting Kok and Tai Mei Tuk and south of those villages in Nam Hang, Fung Yuen and Sha Lo Tung. Most of the lands of the new town were obtained by land reclamation. In present day, Tai Po New Town was simply known as Tai Po.[1]: 227  The new town are largely covered by the government Tai Po Outline Zoning Plan, which legally regulated the land use of the area, on top of the terms in the land lease
contract with the government. Some of the land lease within the area, were known as Tai Po Town Lot № foo. In election, the town had a different zoning scheme for the election constituencies.

History of developments

Lee clan ancestral hall in Luk Heung San Tsuen
Tai Po Government Secondary School [zh], Tai Po Civic Centre and private housing estates Tai Po Centre and Fortune Plaza
Island House
is located on the island. Park on the right was Yuen Chau Tsai Park
An amphitheatre of Yuen Chau Tsai Park

The new town was designed to be expanded from and incorporate the previously existing areas of

indigenous villages to the newly reclaimed land that next to the Tai Po Market, as well as the construction of Tai Po Industrial Estate which started in 1974.[2]: 273  From 1976, [sic][3]: 265  extensive reclamation work was carried out near the mouth of the Lam Tsuen River in Tolo Harbour
(or known as Tai Po Hoi, literally Tai Po Sea) in order to create land for the new town.

The new town was a

South China Morning Post Publishers
etc.. Tai Po New Town also had a smaller industrial area known as Tai Ping Industrial Centre.

The new town was served by two railway stations (now part of the mass transit system of the city), new

Tai Wo Shi), became the Hong Kong Railway Museum, one of the public museums of Tai Po District. In terms of road transport, Tolo Highway was completed in the 1980s, which largely replaced Tai Po Road
as the main road between the new town and city centre.

One of the earliest development of the present day Tai Po new town, were multi-storied estates on newly reclaimed land on

District Council Election Constituency Tai Po Hui,[5] the area could traced back to its origins in the Plover Cove by the name of the local street Luk Heung Lane (陸鄉里), a namesake of Luk Heung (literally Six Villages), as well as an ancestral hall. Those villages from Luk Heung conducted their business activities in Sha Tau Kok market town in the past. The Lane-Square in Tai Po [zh
], or known as the "Four Lanes" were also built circa the 1960s.

In 1972, the Executive Council, the de facto cabinet of the Hong Kong colonial government, had approved a 10-year housing plan, which included a proposed expansion of Tai Po, Fanling–Sheung Shui-Shek Wu Hui and Yuen Long as new towns.[6]

In 1976, Tai Po New Town project was formally announced.[2]: 273  Differ from Luk Heung San Tsuen, which was a relocation of rural population to the rural town centre, the new town project was an influx of urban population from the existing built-up area of the city.[2]: 275 

In 1980, the first public rental housing estate of the new town,

Tai Po Old Market was known as Tai Po Market) to the area around Tai Wo Estate.[9] The new town also composed of many private housing estates, as well as public-private housing estates that were subsidized under the Home Ownership Scheme
.

The New Town project also made Yuen Chau Tsai fishing village obsoleted. Fishermen that formerly lived on their boats, were relocated in the 1970s, initially to the temporary housing area such as Yue Kok (漁角; 'fishing corner'), and then public housing estate.[2]: 275  Yuen Chau Tsai now known for Island House, a fishermen temple Tai Wong Yeh Temple, and nearby Yuen Chau Tsai Park.

Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School, SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School and Carmel Pak U Secondary School, all subsidized secondary schools, was founded in 1960, 1975[10] and 1979 respectively. Tai Po Government Secondary School [zh], was founded in 1984 and folded in 2014. As of 2018, there were 19 secondary schools in the whole Tai Po District,[11] all within the Tai Po New Town.

Hong Kong Institute of Education
, a tertiary public school, moved to its Tai Po new campus. Both facilities were built on existing hilly area of the new town.

According to the Civil Engineering and Development Department of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Science Park in Pak Shek Kok, was also within the scope of Tai Po New Town.[13] However, in later document, the new town project was renamed to "Tai Po New Town and Pak Shek Kok Development".[14] Pak Shek Kok was served by the University station of MTR.

In urban planning

In the Town Planning Board of Hong Kong, the area was known as "Tai Po Outline Zoning Plan" (Tai Po OZP).[15] The zoning plan roughly covered the Tai Po New Town (including Tai Po Industrial Estate), as well as Tai Po Market and Tai Po Old Market. The zoning plan also covered some of the indigenous villages of Tai Po District, but indigenous villages on the Lam Tsuen Valley, were regulated by Lam Tsuen Outline Zoning Plan instead.[16] The aforementioned science park and surrounding residential area in Pak Shek Kok, had its own OZP: Pak Shek Kok (East) Outline Zoning Plan. Other area of the Tai Po District, such as northern Sai Kung Peninsula were belonged to other OZPs of the board.

Scrapped facilities

It was reported that the area of the modern day Tai Wo Estate, a public housing project in the west edge of the new town, was planned for industrial use.[17] However, the plan was scrapped in 1983.[18]

The new town currently had a public auditorium and theatre, Tai Po Civic Centre, which was opened in 1985 on On Pong Road,

7-a-side football fields,[22]
on the existing planned site of Tai Po Town Hall.

Future developments

In 2012, Hong Kong government proposed 25 new land reclamation sites in a public consultation.[23][24] In those 25 sites, some of them are located in the Tai Po District which near to the existing Tai Po new town. In particular, the residents of Tai Po against the sites near Plover Cove, Tai Po Waterfront Park and Tai Po Kau by forming online interest group.[25] Another proposed site near Pak Shek Kok in the Tolo Harbour, had also gathered more than 3,000 signatures in a petition.[26] Of those 25 sites, only 6 of them were included in the stage 2 public consultation, which only included the aforementioned the Tolo Harbour, but excluding the three other sites that near to the Tai Po New Town. In 2018, one of the 6 sites in the stage 2 consultation, became a new project known as Lantau Tomorrow Vision. However, many citizen and environmental protection organization against the project. Our Hong Kong Foundation, a pro-government think tank, had employed Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies [zh] of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to conduct a survey. The survey shown 45.3% agreed reclamation outside the Victoria Harbour, while 33.9% against.[27] In February 2019, the government announced that "it has fully accepted the recommendations tendered by the Task Force on Land Supply," including using reclamation as a mean to obtain new lands for development.[28] However, it was also announced that the reclamation plan of Ma Liu Shui in Tolo Harbour was postponed, despite it was included in the recommendations by the Task Force.[29][30] Thus, it was uncertain that the reclamations in the water of Tolo Harbour would go ahead or not.

Cityscape

See also

References

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