Sceneway Garden () is a

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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 th ...

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, built by

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, and completed in 1992. Sceneway Garden is one of the few dog-friendly and pet-friendly private housing estates in Hong Kong, with a large open space for recreation that is suitable for exercising dogs.

Structure and location

Sceneway Garden is built on top of the Lam Tin MTR station and Lam Tin Bus Terminus, providing transport to residents. Located near the

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, Sceneway Garden also has an outlet to Hong Kong Island. Situated on a platform above Route 2, the underlying layer of the platform houses a shopping mall,

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, and a link to the MTR station. Two other major shopping plazas in Hong Kong, APM and Laguna Plaza are close by. Sceneway Garden consists of 17 blocks, blocks 9 to 17 in Phase B, which was unveiled earlier and are 28 floors tall each, and blocks 1 to 8 in Phase A, with heights varying from 31 floors to 34 floors.

History

In the late 1980s, Cheung Kong acquired two pieces of land in Lam Tin, one being a former

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oil depot, the other above the newly built Lam Tin MTR station and bus terminus, and developed them into

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and Sceneway Garden respectively.''Market Behaviour of Developers''
– Consumer Council. Retrieved on 18 February 2007. Laguna City was completed in 1991 and Sceneway Garden was completed in 1992.

Demographics

Census data indicate that Sceneway Garden had a population of 12,490 in 2011,2011 Population Census

For the purpose of the 2011 census, each of the "Major Housing Estates", among which South Horizons was listed, had its own census data entry. Such estates were thus defined: "A group of residential buildings developed by the same developer (either in the public sector or in the private sector) in one or more phases in a neighbourhood and with at least 3,000 residents or 1,000 domestic households in 2011." mostly

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. However, due to the presence of a Japanese school nearby in

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also form a large proportion of the residents, in comparison to other residential developments in Hong Kong.

Education

Sceneway Garden is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 48. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Kwun Tong Government Primary School.

References

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Structure and location

History

Demographics

Education

See also

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