Tin Shui (II) Estate
Tin Shui Estate () is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Tin Shui Wai Hospital, Tin Shui Wai Park and Light Rail (MTR), Light Rail Tin Shui stop. It is the second public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai New Town. It is divided into Tin Shui (I) Estate () and Tin Shui (II) Estate (), and consists of 12 residential buildings completed in 1993. Tin Oi Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Shui Estate. It consists of two blocks built since 28 October 1993. Houses Tin Shui (I) Estate Tin Shui (II) Estate Tin Oi Court Demographics According to the Population Census in Hong Kong, 2016 by-census, Tin Shui Estate had a population of 23,878 while Tin Oi Court had a population of 3,724. Altogether the population amounts to 27,602. Politics For the 2019 Hong Kong local elections, 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within two constituencies. Most of the estate and Tin Oi Court is located in the Shui Oi (con ...
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Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northwest of Central, the main business area in the territory, on land reclaimed from low-lying areas south of Deep Bay, next to historic Ping Shan. while the total projected population for when the town is fully built-out is about 306,000. History The land on which Tin Shui Wai was built did not exist at the beginning of the 1900s, while the adjacent Ping Shan was by the sea. The water north of Ping Shan gradually turned to marshes and villagers converted them into pools and rice paddies. The pools became ''gei wai'' fish ponds where most of the residents were fishermen before the new town was developed. With the decline in aquaculture, most of the fish ponds were abandoned. The Hong Kong Government developed the area into a new tow ...
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