Hong Kong Light has approved a hotel in the early years of the construction of about 500 rooms at Ap Lei Chau South Horizons. HEC has applied to the City Planning Board to make the hotel room “half” and ” Half to 1,200. Hong Kong’s public awareness of the increase in the room is alarming, if the event will be the third largest hotel in Hong Kong, worried about the MTR difficult to load an additional thousands of tourists access, and regional shopping malls or “shop” to urge residents one letter to the City Council against the application The
Reporter: Zhong Yanyi
The harbor land is located in the south of the South Korean Peninsula, West shopping malls, an area of 11,000 square meters. In the case of the HEC Building and the Parking Building, the Land Use is designated as “Other Specified Uses” and “Electricity Supply Facilities and Hotels”. The HEC has been approved by the Town Planning Board in 2004 to build 510 hotels in the site. However, the HEC has not started construction. In recent months, the HEC has applied to the Town Planning Board to increase the number of rooms by 1.5 times 1,200 rooms, the average area of the room reduced from 646 square feet to about 300 square feet, the project expected to be completed in 2022.
HEC has also suggested that the number of buildings will be changed from one to two, from the original 18-storey building to 19 layers, the total floor area of 49,400 square meters, including the hotel floor of 34,000 square meters, another warehouse or transport Center and power switch station. When the application is made in 2004, when the application is located in a remote location due to the remote location in 2004, the MTR is open to traffic. However, the MTRC is changing its strategy to provide a general room for competition. Of the flow of people, apply for public consultation until the 26th of this month.
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Hong Kong Zhongzhi Community Officer Huang Zhifeng criticized the increase in the number of rooms unreasonable, the South Horizons itself has nearly ten thousand residential units, in the area to build such a large hotel, an increase of thousands of hotel guests, South Island line may not load. If the hotel is completed, it will be the largest number of hotels on Hong Kong Island and the largest number of hotels in Hong Kong. It is less than the Sea View Hotel and Bay View Hotel.
Huang Zhifeng that the smaller hotel room to help attract the mainland tourists, the current shopping malls are to the main line of people’s livelihood, worried about the surge in passengers set off a wave of rent, “If a lot of passengers, free exercise, the most stunning shop Letter shop, and even famous shop “. He criticized the fact that the HEC would disregard the interests of the residents and would hold a resident meeting with the Civic Party on Sunday and would launch a one-man letter calling for residents to oppose the plan.
Citizen’s legislator, Chen Shuzhuang, criticized the number of rooms in Hong Kong to 1.5 times the number of rooms, but the number of tourist buses was only increased from two to three, and it was unable to meet the requirements. She was worried that the hotel completed a more speed shopping mall “famous”, and near the many residential and hotel projects will be completed, such as the Huangzhu Hang Station and Ocean Park Hotel, Southern traffic simply can not load.
The Hong Kong Lamps responded that the planned traffic assessment was subject to the latest developments in the number of revised rooms in response to market demand, tourist facilities and the opening of the South Island Line. The new hotel will have a more beautiful appearance, also set the roof garden, landscape corridor and green courtyard, can optimize the overall visual effects. There is a green pedestrian walkway from south to north, which is also convenient for residents.