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Sunningdale Garden
Sunningdale Garden () is a Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme court built on reclaimed land in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong near Tin Ping Estate, Sheung Shui Town Centre and Shek Wu Hui. It has a total of two blocks built in 1992. Houses Politics Sunningdale Garden is located in Shek Wu Hui constituency of the North District Council. It was formerly represented by Lam Cheuk-ting, who was elected in the 2019 elections The following elections were scheduled to occur in 2019. The International Foundation for Electoral Systems has a calendar of upcoming elections around the world, and the National Democratic Institute also maintains a calendar of elections in coun ... until March 2021. See also * Public housing estates in Sheung Shui References category:Residential buildings completed in 1992 category:Sheung Shui category:Home Ownership Scheme category:Private Sector Participation Scheme {{HongKong-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheung Shui
Sheung Shui (, literally "Above-water") is an area in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Sheung Shui Town, a part of this area, is part of the Fanling–Sheung Shui New Town in the North District of Hong Kong. Fanling Town is to its southeast. History Shek Wu Hui () used to be the marketplace of the Sheung Shui area, before the development of Sheung Shui Town. Bounded by Lung Sum Avenue (), San Fung Avenue and Jockey Club Road, it was the main market in the Sheung Shui area from the 1930s onwards. Today some private residences can be found towering over the old flats in the ''hui'' (market). The majority of the buildings still standing were repaired in the 1950s. Sheung Shui Wai (), originally lived in by the Liu () clan, is a walled village. The ancestral hall Liu Man Shek Tong () in the village is one of the declared monuments of Hong Kong. The , located near Sheung Shui Wai and originally established by the Liu clan, is the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, in term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that treaty, the territories comprise the mainland area north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China), as well as over 200 outlying islands, including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of HK. Later, after New Kowloon was defined from the area between the Boundary Street and the Kowloon Ranges spanned from Lai Chi Kok to Lei Yue Mun, and the extension of the urban areas of Kowloon, New Kowloon was gradually urbanised and absorbed into Kowloon. The New Territories now comprises only the mainland north of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Housing Authority
The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the Urban Services Department were merged to form the Housing Department, which acts as the Housing Authority's executive body. History The modern Housing Authority was founded in 1973. In 2005, most Housing Authority-owned shopping centres and car parks were controversially divested to The Link REIT. A citywide scandal erupted in 2015 after heavy metals were found in the water supply of some housing estates, schools, and private residential buildings. The contamination was first identified at Kai Ching Estate, opened in 2013. A task force found that the contamination was caused by solder joints with high lead content. Responsibilities Outside of public housing provision, the authority is also responsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Ownership Scheme
The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing programme managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing with two aims – to encourage better-off tenants of rental flats to vacate those flats for re-allocation to families in greater housing need; and also to provide an opportunity for home ownership to families unable to afford to buy in the private sector. Under the scheme, the government sells flats to eligible public housing tenants and to lower-income residents at prices below the market level, with discounts usually between 30 and 40 per cent. It restricts resale of the units in the second-hand market to other families who qualify or, on the open market, after payment of a premium equal to the updated value of the discount given on the original purchase. As an ancillary scheme, the Housing Authority also entered into arrangements with local private developers to provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Reclamation In Hong Kong
The reclamation of land from the ocean has long been used in mountainous Hong Kong to expand the limited supply of usable land with a total of around 60 square kilometres of land created by 1996. The first reclamations can be traced back to the early Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – 9 AD), when beaches were turned into fields for salt production. Major land reclamation projects have been conducted since the mid-19th century.EIA: A survey report of Historical Buildings and Structures within the Project Area of the Central Reclamation Phase III Chan Sui San Peter for the HK Government, February 2001 Projects Bonham Strand Praya Re ...
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Tin Ping Estate
Tin Ping Estate () is a public housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Sacred Hill and Tin Ping Shan Tsuen. It is the northernmost mixed public and TPS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town and consists of seven residential buildings completed between 1986 and 1990. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3 in 2000. On Shing Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Sheung Shui, near Tin Ping Estate. It has only one block built in 1990. Houses Tin Ping Estate On Shing Court Demographics According to the 2016 by-census, Tin Ping Estate had a population of 17,625. The median age was 51.6 and the majority of residents (99.1 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.9 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$24,170. Politics For the 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within two const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shek Wu Hui
Shek Wu Hui () is a non-administrative subdivision (neighbourhood) and former indigenous market town located in Sheung Shui in the North District of Hong Kong. The place name can be found in the record that published in 1819. Administration For electoral purposes, Shek Wu Hui is part of the Shek Wu Hui constituency of the North District Council. It was formerly represented by Lam Cheuk-ting, who was elected in the local elections until March 2021. History The name Shek Wu Hui appeared in Qing dynasty Jiaqing Year's ''Xin'an Xianzhi'' (''Gazetteer of the Xin'an County''), with footnote: "", literally means the market town was relocated from another place ''Tin Gong'' () to Shek Wu () between the two editions of ''Xin'an Xianzhi''. The older edition of ''Xin'an Xianzhi'' was published in Kangxi Year, or circa 1688 in the Gregorian calendar. According to an academic paper, Shek Wu Hui was established by one of the Five Great Clans of the New Territories, (surnamed Liu (), in mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shek Wu Hui (constituency)
Shek Wu Hui is one of the 18 constituencies in the North District, Hong Kong. The constituency returns one district councillor to the North District Council, with an election every four years. The seat was last held by Lam Cheuk-ting of the Democratic Party. It has been vacant since Lam's resignation. Shek Wu Hui constituency is loosely based on Shek Wu Hui including Sheung Shui Centre, Sheung Shui Town Centre, Sunningdale Garden, Metropolis Plaza and Lung Fung Garden in Sheung Shui Sheung Shui (, literally "Above-water") is an area in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Sheung Shui Town, a part of this area, is part of the Fanling–Sheung Shui New Town in the North District of Hong Kong. Fanling Town is to its southea ... with estimated population of 19,841. Councillors represented 1982 to 1985 1985 to 1988 1988 to present Election results 2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s Notes References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North District Council
The North District Council () is one of the 18 Hong Kong district councils and represents the North District. It is one of 18 such councils. Consisting of 22 members, the district council is drawn from 18 constituencies, which elect 18 members, along with four ''ex officio'' members who are the Ta Kwu Ling, Sheung Shui, Sha Tau Kok and Fanling rural committee chairmen. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019. History The North District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the North District Board as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the ''ex-officio'' Regional Council members and chairmen of four Rural Committees, Ta Kwu Ling, Sheung Shui, Sha Tau Kok and Fanling, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member. The North District Board became North Provisional District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Affairs Commission
The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) is the body, established under the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance, that oversees electoral matters in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt .... Its main functions include considering or reviewing the boundaries of Legislative Council geographical constituencies and constituencies of the 18 District Councils for the purpose of making recommendations, and overseeing the conduct and supervision of elections and regulating the procedures at an election. It is also responsible for supervision of the registration of electors and the promotional activities relating to registration. History In 1997, the EAC succeeded the former Boundary and Election Commission (), which was established on 23 July 1993. It is head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lam Cheuk-ting
Lam Cheuk-ting (; born 13 June 1977) is a Democratic Party politician in Hong Kong. He is a former investigator of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and chief executive of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the North District Council for Shek Wu Hui until March 2021. He was elected to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2016 through New Territories East. Biography Lam graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999, studying Government and Public Administration. After graduation, he joined the Democratic Party and became assistant of Albert Ho. He was transferred to Democratic Party's Legislative Council Secretariat in 2001 and became assistant of party's chairman in 2003, having been serving Yeung Sum, Lee Wing-tat and Albert Ho. In 2006 when the Democratic Party set up a five-member investigation commission on the allegation of some senior members involving in spying activities of Beijing, he became the secretary of the commission. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Hong Kong Local Elections
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people voted, equivalent to 71 per cent of registered voters, an unprecedented turnout in the electoral history of Hong Kong. The election was widely viewed as a ''de facto'' referendum on the 2019 widespread anti-extradition protests. All pro-Beijing parties suffered major setbacks and losses, including the flagship pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), which received its largest defeat in history, losing 96 seats. Executive Councillor Regina Ip's New People's Party failed to obtain a single seat, and was ousted from all District Councils as a result. Dozens of prominent pro-Beijing heavyweights lost their campaigns for re-election, including Junius Ho, a controversial anti-protest figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
