Appendix II - S Kwai Tsing District Summaries of Written/Oral Representations
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S. Kwai Tsing District - 349 - S. Kwai Tsing District Appendix II - S Kwai Tsing District Summaries of Written/Oral Representations Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O 1 All - 1 Supports the provisional The supporting view is noted. DCCAs recommendations on all DCCAs of the Kwai Tsing District. 2 All 1 - (a) Supports the provisional Item (a) DCCAs recommendations on S03 The supporting view is noted. (Kwai Shing East Estate), S04 (Upper Tai Wo Hau), S05 (Lower Tai Wo Hau), S07 (Kwai Chung Estate North), S11 (On Yam), S14 (Kwai Fong), S18 (Cho Yiu), S19 (Lai King), S20 (Kwai Shing West Estate), S21 (On Ho), S22 (Wai Ying), S23 (Tsing Yi Estate), S24 (Greenfield), S25 (Cheung Ching), S26 (Cheung Hong), S27 (Shing Hong), S28 (Tsing Yi South), S29 (Cheung Hang), S30 (Ching Fat) and S31 (Cheung On). (b) Other than those mentioned Item (b) in item 2(a) above, holds The view is noted. reservation on the provisional recommendations on the remaining DCCAs. Proposes that more consideration should be given to community ties in future delineation exercises, including to draw up a new * W: Number of written representations. O : Number of oral representations. S. Kwai Tsing District - 350 - S. Kwai Tsing District Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O working principle stipulating that the population of a split-up housing estate in a single DCCA cannot be less than 3 000 or three building blocks so as to avoid the relevant residents in the DCCA being neglected. (c) With reference to a survey Item (c) conducted by HKU Social The proposal made in the Sciences Research Centre representation involves for the Sham Shui Po DC in alteration of administrative 2002, requests the EAC to district boundaries, which does relay to the Government not fall under the purview of the that the residents living in EAC. The EAC has referred the south of Lai King Hill this view to the Government for Road in the Kwai Tsing consideration. District support the transfer of that area to the Sham Shui Po District. 3 S01 – 19^ 4 (a) Object to the transfer of Item (a) Kwai * Chun Kwai House, Ha This proposal is accepted. In Hing Kwai House and Chau reviewing the boundaries of the Kwai House of Kwai DCCAs, it is a statutory S02 – Chung Estate, and Kwai requirement that the EAC has to Kwai Fuk Court from S06 (Kwai examine the existing boundaries Luen Chung Estate South) to S01 of DCCAs on the basis of the (Kwai Hing) and request population of individual S06 – withdrawing the relevant DCCAs in the year in which the Kwai provisional relevant election will be held. Chung recommendations. The EACO stipulates that apart Estate Reasons are summarised as from taking into account the South follows: projected population, the EAC must also have regard to the the five building blocks other statutory factors, concerned and S01 including community identities, (Kwai Hing) are preservation of local ties and ^ Of which, seven are template letters. Besides, one representation contains 666 signatures from the public. S. Kwai Tsing District - 351 - S. Kwai Tsing District Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O S07 – separated by a steep physical features (such as the Kwai slope and the lift which size, shape, accessibility and Chung was requested for years development) of the relevant Estate has still not been built. area when adjusting the DCCA North Therefore, it would be boundaries. Based on the very dangerous and 2015 original DCCA boundary, inconvenient for the the population of S06 (Kwai residents to go to and fro Chung Estate South) (21 829) the two DCCAs. It is will exceed the statutory also difficult for the permissible upper limit residents concerned to go (+31.51%), hence there is a to S01 (Kwai Hing) to need to adjust its boundary by seek assistance from the transferring some of its DC member; buildings to the adjacent DCCA with a view to maintaining the all buildings of Kwai population of the DCCA within Chung Estate are closely the statutory permissible range. connected in terms of historical development, When drawing up the geographical location provisional recommendations, and community needs. the EAC noted that the Besides, their community Government has agreed to build development is unique; an escalator next to the staircase connecting S01 (Kwai Hing) the provisional and S06 (Kwai Chung Estate recommendations break South) (“a-hundred-step community integrity and staircase”) and the construction identities of Kwai Chung works will be carried out from Estate because the 2 May 2018 to 1 May 2019. residents of Chun Kwai Therefore, transferring Chun House, Ha Kwai House Kwai House, Ha Kwai House and Chau Kwai House of and Chau Kwai House of Kwai Kwai Chung Estate, and Chung Estate, and Kwai Fuk Kwai Fuk Court share Court to S01 (Kwai Hing) is the living space, geographically feasible. geographical location and facilities such as Nevertheless, upon receipt of shopping arcade, market, the representations, the EAC leisure facilities, car park conducted site visits in August and social services and September 2018 and noted organisation with the that the relevant works had not residents of other commenced yet. According to building blocks of Kwai the Government’s works S. Kwai Tsing District - 352 - S. Kwai Tsing District Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O Chung Estate. They are schedule, there must be a delay also facing the same in the above works. In view of community issues; this and having taken geographical factor into should not solely consideration, the EAC agrees consider the compliance to retain Chun Kwai House, Ha with the principle that Kwai House and Chau Kwai the DCCA population House of Kwai Chung Estate, cannot exceed the and Kwai Fuk Court in S06 population quota. The (Kwai Chung Estate South). principle of preserving In the absence of better community integrity is alternative option, the EAC more important; proposes to keep the boundary of S06 (Kwai Chung Estate there are various types of South) unchanged and allow its buildings in S01 (Kwai population (21 829) to exceed Hing). If Chun Kwai the statutory permissible upper House, Ha Kwai House limit (+31.51%). and Chau Kwai House of another housing estate, According to the proposal made and the disciplined in the representations, the services quarters Kwai respective populations of S01 Fuk Court are also (Kwai Hing) and S06 (Kwai included in the DCCA, it Chung Estate South) are: will be difficult for the DC member to serve and S01: 13 197, -20.50% handle views of residents S06: 21 829, +31.51%. with different interests from different groups; Regarding the views on the population figures, the query the population projected population figures as figures of S01 (Kwai at 30 June 2019 are used for the Hing) and S06 (Kwai delineation exercise for the Chung Estate South). 2019 DC Ordinary Election. The representations As in the past, the projected consider that Kwong Fai population figures are provided Circuit in S01 (Kwai by the AHSG, set up specially Hing) contains a lot of for the purpose of the subdivided units. The delineation exercise under the EAC’s reliance on the Working Group on Population figures from the Distribution Projection in the population by-census PlanD. The current population may possibly seriously distribution projections are S. Kwai Tsing District - 353 - S. Kwai Tsing District Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O underestimate the derived by using scientific and population of the DCCA. systematic methodology based In fact, the actual total on the results of the 2016 population of S06 (Kwai population by-census carried Chung Estate South) is out by the C&SD as well as the roughly over 19 000, up-to-date official data kept by which is in line with the the relevant government statutory requirement departments. Members of the and no adjustment is AHSG are all professional required; departments which all along have been responsible for as the owner and territory-wide population management census and projections on organisation of Kwai population distribution. They Chung Estate, the possess the most up-to-date population figures information on the population provided by the HD and land and housing should be more accurate. development, and the data are According to the figures highly-accepted generally. provided by the HD, the The EAC has all along relied on provisional the statistical figures provided recommendations will by the AHSG, which are the render the population of only data available for the S06 (Kwai Chung Estate delineation exercise. South) below the statutory permissible Regarding the other issues as lower limit; mentioned in the representations, the delineation there is no substantial recommendations must be change in the population based on objective data of of S06 (Kwai Chung population distribution. Estate South) and hence Arrangements on district no need to transfer some administration matters or of the buildings in the community services provided DCCA to S01 (Kwai by DC members are not the Hing); relevant factors of consideration. constant changes to DCCA boundaries and the division of Kwai Chung Estate into three DCCAs make it hard for the public to adapt and S. Kwai Tsing District - 354 - S. Kwai Tsing District Item No.∗ DCCAs Representations EAC’s Views No. W O seek assistance from the DC member; the elderlies living at Chun Kwai House, Ha Kwai House and Chau Kwai House of Kwai Chung Estate are used to the service of the incumbent DC member. They worry that it will be hard for them to communicate with an unfamiliar DC member in future; and dividing Kwai Chung Estate into three DCCAs and having three DC members serving the estate would make it difficult for them to reach a consensus, because the three DC members may have different stands and views on social issues.