Current condition
In use
Date completed
Resettlement estate built in Tsuen Wan for villagers displaced from Shek Pik on Lantau Island due to the construction of the reservoir. Opened Nov 1960.
(from wiki)
Originally 6 blocks of 32 units each, only 4 remain:
Block A, 70-84 Ho Pui Street
Block B, 85-99 Yeung Uk Road
Block C, 61-75 Ham Tin Street
Block F, 12-26 Luen Yan Street
Demolished:
Block D, 85-99 Ham Tin Street (replaced by Harmony Garden Block 1)
Block E, 28-42 Luen Yan Street (replaced by Harmony Garden Block 2)
Wiki says build date was Nov 1960, Land Registry (via Centamap) says occupation date in Jan 1961.
Photos that show this Place
c.1960
Comments
Re: rare housing estate
Hi There,
This is one rare site to rehouse villagers in a multi-floor estate. There is a similar resettlement in Kan Tin for the Shing Mun Valley villagers called Shing Mun Sun Tsuen (for those being displaced by the Shing Mun Reservoir Project. But they are just small houses like of three stories like those under the scheme designed by Brey & Acher-Jones.
It is even earlier then Shek Pik San Tsuen as Shing Mun Sun Tsuen was built in the 1930s.
T
Plover Cove/Luk Heung
I think the Plover Cove resettlement estate in Taipo is similar. Wiki mentions this one served as a template for the one in Taipo.