According to assessment reports submitted to the Town Planning Board, no decision has been made for the actual number of flats and the proportion of rental housing and subsidised sales flats on Phase 1 of the development at Wang Chau, the Government said today.
In response to media enquiries on the public housing development plan at Wang Chau, the Government said the paper stated clearly that the proposed number of flats was 4,000 for Wang Chau Phase 1 development.
It refers to the supplementary assessments on traffic and transport impact and air ventilation in the feasibility study submitted to Town Planning Board in October 2014.
The Government noted that the assessment adopted a "conservative approach" that "assumed" the total number of flats was to be "capped at" 5,000 and, for "technical assessment purpose", the proportion of public rental housing/home ownership scheme flats was "assumed" to be 50:50 in order to maintain the flexibility to ensure that results of the technical assessments will be applicable to future development.
For routing of the road connecting Wang Chau Phase 1, which was different from the traffic impact assessment, the Civil Engineering & Development Department had already given a detailed account in the paper submitted to the Yuen Long District Council's Traffic & Transport Committee that the re-routing is to allow the public to pass in and out of the burial ground without entering into the future housing estate.
Regarding the planning application by a private development near the Wang Chau public housing development, when the Planning Department consulted related government departments, the Housing Department objected that access of the road proposed by the private development would encroach into the boundary of the Phase 1 public housing development at Wang Chau and the original design of the public road for Wang Chau Phase 1 had not taken into account the private development.
