31/8/2017-7

Mr Wong Yuen Fai served as Chairman of the Land Task Force

The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, announced in recent months that a panel of experts had a “big debate” on the supply of land. The market rumors announced today that the Government would announce the list of members as soon as possible, including the Housing Authority’s Chairman of the Housing Group, Mr Wong Yuen-hui, The President is expected to hold its first meeting next Wednesday.

Hong Kong and Taiwan quoted the experts as saying that the panel consisted of more than 20 members, including professional bodies such as construction, engineering and measurement, environmentalists, local people and think tank representatives. Members include the former president of the Institute of Architects Wu Yongshun, former president of the Surveyor Institute. And the Hong Kong University of the Ministry of Real Estate and Construction Professor Zou Guangrong, etc., the group expected in the next 12 to 18 months through the form of discussion and other topics, to explore the future direction of land supply, and to publish a report to consult the public.

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The source pointed out that there was a lot of discussion on land supply in Hong Kong in the past, but it was often unable to draw a specific direction. It was expected that the newly formed panel of experts would be able to “broadly discuss” the possibility of different types of future land supply in a broad and objective manner, Hoping to gather more consensus on the direction of future land supply to find a more appropriate direction, and stressed that the discussion of the future of land supply is not only residential supply, will also consider industrial and commercial purposes.

In addition, the Housing Authority has announced that it is planned to redevelop the United States East Building, aged about 43 years, and about 34 years old at the United States and the United States. Mr Wong Yuen-hui attended the radio program yesterday. It was decided that when the estate was redeveloped Is a “big obstacles”, but also must respect the residents of the district hope that the original placement of the demands.

Mr Wong said that since the redevelopment of public housing estates would require the use of other new PRH flats for resettlement, it would be very careful to consider taking up the newly completed PRH flats in order to avoid the allocation of the Waiting List influences.