The following shows the
public housing estates
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authorities, government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the d ...
, including
Home Ownership Scheme (HOS),
Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS),
Tenant Purchase Scheme (TPS) in
Lam Tin
Lam Tin is an area in the Kwun Tong District in southeastern New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Lam Tin is primarily a residential area but also hosts a major transport interchange and several shopping attractions. Lam Tin was once a large field in the ...
of
Kwun Tong District
Kwun Tong is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the easternmost and southernmost district in Kowloon. It had a population of 648,541 in 2016. The district has the second highest population in Hong Kong, af ...
,
Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
,
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 ...
.
History
Lam Tin is the hill area at the southeast of Kwun Tong District. There was a
resettlement estate in the area, called Lam Tin Resettlement Estate () in the 1960s.
The resettlement has totally 23 blocks. Block 15 was also the 500th public estate building constructed by the Works Bureau. All the blocks in the estate were demolished in Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project () between the 1980s and 2000s. They were replaced by new blocks of Kai Tin Estate (), Ping Tin Estate (), On Tin Estate () and new Lam Tin Estate ().
Overview
Hing Tin Estate
Hing Tin Estate () is a mixed public and TPS estate at the north of Lam Tin, near the Kwun Tong side exit of
Tseung Kwan O Tunnel
Tseung Kwan O Tunnel () is a 900-metre tunnel beneath Ma Yau Tong in Hong Kong. The tunnel was opened on 9 November 1990. Part of Route 7, it links Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, Kowloon and the Tseung Kwan O New Town, Sai Kung District, the New Ter ...
. It consists of 3 blocks completed in 1987. Some of the flats were sold to
tenants
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a l ...
during Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 4 in 2001.
Houses
Hong Nga Court
Hong Nga Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Tak Tin Estate. It has 3 blocks built in 1993.
Houses
Hong Pak Court
Hong Pak Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kwong Tin Estate. It has 7 blocks built in 1993.
Houses
Hong Shui Court
Hong Shui Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kwong Tin Estate. It has 1 block built in 1999.
House
Hong Tin Court
Hong Tin Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kai Tin Estate and MTR
Lam Tin station
Lam Tin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR built as a part of the extension to . The station is linked to the nearby hillside community of Lam Tin by a series of escalators.
History
In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EH ...
. It has 3 blocks built in 1982, and it is the oldest HOS court in Lam Tin.
Houses
Hong Wah Court
Hong Wah Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Hing Tin Estate. It has 3 blocks built in 1987.
Houses
Hong Yat Court
Hong Yat Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Kai Tin Estate, Lam Tin Estate and
MTR Lam Tin station
Lam Tin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR built as a part of the extension to . The station is linked to the nearby hillside community of Lam Tin by a series of escalators.
History
In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EH ...
. It belonged to Phase 5 of the Lam Tin Redevelopment Project. It has 5 blocks built in 2001.
Houses
Hong Ying Court
Hong Ying Court () is a HOS court in Lam Tin, near Tak Tin Estate. It has 1 block built in 1991.
House
Kai Tin Estate
Kai Tin Estate () formed part of the
Lam Tin Estate
The following shows the public housing estates, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Tenant Purchase Scheme (TPS) in Lam Tin of Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
History
Lam Tin is the hil ...
redevelopment
Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses. It represents a process of land development uses to revitalize the physical, economic and social fabric of urban space.
Description
Variations on redevelopment include: ...
project. It consists of 3 blocks and a shopping centre built in 1997.
[Kai Tin Shopping Centre Extension](_blank)
/ref>
Houses
Kwong Tin Estate
Kwong Tin Estate () is located between Lam Tin and Yau Tong
Yau Tong () is an area of Hong Kong, located in the southeastern end of Kowloon, between Lei Yue Mun and Lam Tin, at the east shore of Victoria Harbour, west of Tseung Kwan O. Administratively, it is part of Kwun Tong District, the most densely ...
.[Kwun Tong District](_blank)
It has four blocks built in 1992 and 1993.
Houses
Lei On Court
Lei On Court () is a HOS estate in Lei Yue Mun Road
Lei Yue Mun Road () is a major road in Lam Tin, Hong Kong. It runs from the junction with Tsui Ping Road and Kwun Tong Road near MTR Kwun Tong station to the roundabout with Ko Chiu Road near Lei Yue Mun Estate in Yau Tong. The westernmost sec ...
, Lam Tin
Lam Tin is an area in the Kwun Tong District in southeastern New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Lam Tin is primarily a residential area but also hosts a major transport interchange and several shopping attractions. Lam Tin was once a large field in the ...
, Kwun Tong
Kwun Tong is an area in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon ...
, Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
, Hong Kong, located near MTR Lam Tin station
Lam Tin () is a station on the Hong Kong MTR built as a part of the extension to . The station is linked to the nearby hillside community of Lam Tin by a series of escalators.
History
In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EH ...
. Built in 2002, it consists of six Concord-typed blocks, providing a total of 1684 flats. Blocks A, D, E and F are built in conjunction with the carpark building, whereas Block B and C stand separately at the northwest of the Court.
Background
Lei On Court was built at the former site of a public housing estate
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...
, Kwun Tong (Lei Yue Mun Road) Estate () (which is different from the current Lei Yue Mun Estate
The following is an overview of public housing estates in Yau Tong, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates.
History
Over ...
). Kwun Tong (Lei Yue Mun Road) Estate was built in 1962 and demolished in 1997. It was replaced by the current Lei On Court, an HOS estate.
Houses
On Tin Estate
On Tin Estate () was a part of Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project. Built above Kai Tin Shopping Centre Extension, the estate has two block completed in 2005.
Houses
Ping Tin Estate
Ping Tin Estate () was a part of Lam Tin Estate Redevelopment Project. It consists of 8 blocks (including one Ancillary Facilities Block for Housing for Senior Citizen) completed in 1997 and 1998.
Houses
Tak Tin Estate
Tak Tin Estate () is a mixed public/TPS estate in Lam Tin, near Ping Tin Estate and Lam Tin Estate. It consists of 9 blocks completed in 1991 and 2001. In 1999, some of the flats (Tak Hong House and Tak Yan House excluded) were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 2.
Houses
Lam Tin Estate
The current Lam Tin Estate () is smaller than the original one, and it has 4 blocks completed in 2009. Its predecessor was a resettlement estate from the 1960s to 1990s. Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maint ...
, a Hong Kong famous singer, lived in Block 15 of the estate when he was a child. It was demolished between the 1990s and 2000s and its area is redeveloped to construct Kai Tin Estate, Ping Tin Estate, On Tin Estate, Hong Yat Court and the new Lam Tin Estate. Andy Lau also autographed 'Lam Tin Estate' in Chinese calligraphy
Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form, combining purely visual art and interpretation of the literary meaning. This type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high est ...
at the time of the estate completion.Completion of Lam Tin Estate Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme
/ref>
Houses
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Public Housing Estates in Lam Tin
Lam Tin
Kwun Tong District
zh:藍田邨