Roy Tam speaks to RTHK's Yvonne Lou
A university student, Kwok Ka-ping, has applied for a judicial review against a government decision to include 12 hectares of the Lion Rock Country Park in one of its land sales programme.
Under the terms, whoever wins the bid to develop a two hectare residential site in Tai Wo Ping in Shek Kip Mei will be given the task of looking after 12 hectres of the park land and another eight hectres of the nearby green zone. But they will be barred from building in the area.
Kwok, an environmental policy major at the City University of Hong Kong wants to stop this and is making a last-ditch effort to overturn the decision before Friday’s public tender deadline.
The chief executive of Green Sense, Roy Tam, who has been helping Kwok with the judicial review application, told RTHK’s Yvonne Lou that the deal is worrying as it may give the developer a chance to cut trees from the park area.
Under the terms, whoever wins the bid to develop a two hectare residential site in Tai Wo Ping in Shek Kip Mei will be given the task of looking after 12 hectres of the park land and another eight hectres of the nearby green zone. But they will be barred from building in the area.
Kwok, an environmental policy major at the City University of Hong Kong wants to stop this and is making a last-ditch effort to overturn the decision before Friday’s public tender deadline.
The chief executive of Green Sense, Roy Tam, who has been helping Kwok with the judicial review application, told RTHK’s Yvonne Lou that the deal is worrying as it may give the developer a chance to cut trees from the park area.
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