Yat Tung Estate, Lantau island, Hong Kong

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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 ...

s on

Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...

, Hong Kong.

Overview

Fu Tung Estate

Fu Tung Estate () is located near

Tung Chung station Tung Chung () is a station on the of the MTR rapid transport system in Hong Kong. As the western end of the Tung Chung line, it is also a transfer point of those wishing to use the Ngong Ping Cable Car and by bus to the rest of Lantau Island. ...

. Built on the

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

North Lantau New Town North Lantau New Town is the newest of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, located on the northern coast of the Lantau Island in the New Territories. It covers Tung Chung, Tai Ho Wan, Siu Ho Wan, other p ...

Phase 1 project, it is the first public housing estate in Tung Chung. It consists of 3 residential buildings completed in 1997.

Yu Tung Court

Yu Tung Court () is a

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 b ...

court in

Tung Chung Tung Chung, meaning " eastern stream", is an area on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. One of the most recent new towns, it was formerly a rural fishing village beside Tung Chung Bay, and along the delta and lower courses of ...

, located near Fu Tung Estate and

. Built on the

Phase 1 project, it is the first and the only HOS court in Tung Chung. It has a total of 5 blocks built in 1997, together with Fu Tung Estate.

Yat Tung Estate

Yat Tung Estate () is located in

. It is divided into 'Yat Tung (I) Estate' (), completed in 2001 and comprising 13 blocks of Concord 1 and Harmony 1 types, and 'Yat Tung (II) Estate' (), completed in 2004 – 2005 and comprising 12 blocks of Harmony 1 and NCB types. Residents of Yat Tung Estate have appealed to the government to extend the

Tung Chung line The Tung Chung line is one of the ten lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong, linking the town of Tung Chung with central Hong Kong. A part of the Tung Chung line was built along with the Kap Shui Mun Bridge and the Tsing Ma Bridge. The line c ...

to Yat Tung to ease their transportation problems. Yat Tung Estate currently has 36,913 residents. They claimed that when they moved in 11 years ago, the Housing Bureau's documents indicated a MTR station at the estate. The residents currently have to take a 10-minute bus journey to

. The proposed Tung Chung West station would be located adjacent to Yat Tung Estate. It is tentatively slated to open between 2020 and 2024. ;Yat Tung (I) Estate ; Yat Tung (II) Estate

Tung Chung Artwalk

The Hong Kong Housing Authority established the Tung Chung Artwalk () at Yat Tung Estate, so as to promote public art at public housing estates. It is the first public housing estate to have a large public art scheme launched by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Sixteen works of art selected from 316 outstanding submissions for the competition "New Face of Heritage" were firstly displayed in the estate in 2002 while another 10 artworks were added in 2006.

Lung Hin Court

Lung Hin Court () is a

court in Tai O. It is located in on the

in east

Tai O Tai O is a fishing town, partly located on an island of the same name, on the western side of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The village name means ''large inlet'', referring to outlet for the waterways (Tai O Creek and Tai O River) merges as ...

, next to Lung Tin Estate. The court is the Phase 2 development of Lung Tin Estate. It was originally planned for rehousing people affected by the Tai O development, but it was transferred to HOS units in 1999 since the clearance scale was largely reduced.

Lung Tin Estate and Tin Lee Court

Lung Tin Estate () and Tin Lee Court () are the sole Hong Kong Housing Authority public rental estate and HOS estate in south

respectively. It is located in on the

in east

. Tin Lee Court was once part of Lung Tin Estate. Yet due to high vacant rate of the building, it has been converted to HOS estate and sold at 2014, and the original residents were migrated.

Ngan Wan Estate

Ngan Wan Estate () is located in Ngan Kwong Wan Road, Mui Wo, a short distance from Mui Wo Ferry Pier. It consists of 4 residential blocks completed in 1988.

Ngan Ho Court and Ngan Wai Court

Ngan Ho Court () and Ngan Wai Court () are Home Ownership Scheme courts in Ngan Kwong Wan Road, Mui Wo. Ngan Ho Court comprises 2 blocks with 529 flats in total while Ngan Wai Court comprises 1 block with 170 flats in total. They are the only HOS courts on outlying islands (except

) which were sold in 2010's. They were sold in 2017 and completed in 2018.

Ying Tung Estate

Ying Tung Estate () is built on the Northeastern Coast of Tung Chung, next to Ying Tung Road in 2018, it consists of 4 blocks, namely Ying Chui House, Ying Yuet House, Ying Hei House and Ying Fook House.

Mun Tung Estate

Mun Tung Estate () is located in Tung Chung. It consists of 4 residential blocks completed in 2018.

Yu Tai Court

Yu Tai Court () is located in Tung Chung near Yat Tung Estate. It comprises two blocks with totally 1,226 flats at a saleable area of 25.8 square metres to 53.1 square metres. The flats were sold in 2018 and is expected to commence in 2020.Long queues for pricey HOS flats
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Yu Nga Court

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