Hong Kong has enough land to build 2.8M flats if......

[East_coast]

Well, those are brownfield sites. We have truck repair shops next to us. You should see them. They operate without proper drainage. They drain the oil from trucks over open ground.

Surely you have reported this type of activity to the EPD?

https://epic.epd.gov.hk/EPICCOM/gene...laint/?lang=en

This takes expert knowledge and one has to determine how deep the contamination is and what kind of contaminants it contains. This can vary from site to site.

Oh dear. This does sound a little feeble. Given most of the site will be excavated for underground car parks it really is just a need to working out what to do with the couple of feet of mildly oil contaminated soil. If you believe this is the reason agricultural land used as near free commercial land is not targeted for housing then that is fine but again it is explicitly at odds with popular press and general consensus in society....

[civil_servant]

Surely you have reported this type of activity to the EPD?

https://epic.epd.gov.hk/EPICCOM/gene...laint/?lang=en




Oh dear. This does sound a little feeble. Given most of the site will be excavated for underground car parks it really is just a need to working out what to do with the couple of feet of mildly oil contaminated soil. If you believe this is the reason agricultural land used as near free commercial land is not targeted for housing then that is fine but again it is explicitly at odds with popular press and general consensus in society....

Hmm, you do have a point there.

[East_coast]

Hmm, you do have a point there.

I have just checked your IP address, traced your building location and then checked the local repair shop and filled in the form on your behalf....

Your welcome...

It is possible to imagine pollution like this going on in the depths of the NT bit not really Tuen Mun

[East_coast]

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A thing of beauty

[civil_servant]

It's gone. It was in decline for many years. There's sushi and teppanyaki instead.

[East_coast]

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These do like highly efficient facilities that enhance the overall competitiveness of the City.







Or they look like chunks of land held by village heads that earn commercial rents whilst paying agricultural land premiums and rates whilst they wait for the promised HUGE payout for a redevelopment that suits them and the developer (not just the developer).

Wouldn't it be easier to just make the functional consistencies have an increased voting base so all these corruption / collusion / competency issues would be less important?

No doubt people will say Hong Kong is special and the government is wonderful (the current administration at least) so we should listen to their wisdom as they are all knowing and don't have bad policies.

[wayland]

Call me a skeptic, call me ignorant, call me naive but here's a sincere question...

Is the "number of flats" really the problem in HK?

IMO, builders have loads of empty flats not for sale so they can control pricing and only sell when it's most profitable for them. All these calls for more land/flats won't make HK more affordable for housing unless govt changes regulations for developers.

[East_coast]

All these calls for more land/flats won't make HK more affordable for housing unless govt changes regulations for developers.

Obviously but which Politician would upset the developers . Flats with no registered occupant should have a much higher annual ratings tax. Would probably bring in 100,000-200,000 Private flats in days. So around 10 years supply... Not going to happen

[UK/HKboy]

Call me a skeptic, call me ignorant, call me naive but here's a sincere question...

Is the "number of flats" really the problem in HK?

IMO, builders have loads of empty flats not for sale so they can control pricing and only sell when it's most profitable for them. All these calls for more land/flats won't make HK more affordable for housing unless govt changes regulations for developers.

I think this will be difficult to regulate because i don't think you can force them to sell a product especially if there are no buyers at reasonable prices. But the reason there hasn't been stricter regulations on developers is due to vested interests and the power and influence they have on the HK government.

[East_coast]

I think this will be difficult to regulate because i don't think you can force them to sell a product especially if there are no buyers at reasonable prices.

You put it in the terms for the Land Lease. Must be developed and sold (to none equity linked) by say 5 years after purchase.

The reason there hasn't been stricter regulations on developers is due to vested interests and the power and influence they have on the HK government.

It it hasn't changed with this CE