Hong Kong needs stackable housing on expanded Disneyland site, not a Dutch garden, lawmaker Andrew Wan says
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Stacking prefabricated homes on a plot of land reserved for an expanded Disneyland would be better than the Dutch flower garden Hong Kong officials just agreed to put there, a lawmaker has said.
“They went to the Netherlands to bring in flowers. But why not introduce the Dutch prefabricated homes?” Wan, a Housing Authority member, asked on a radio programme on Friday. “It is so ironic.”
Yau said earlier that the modular housing would not be considered for the Disneyland site, as it was more of a long-term project and “not compatible” with the use of the reserved land.
But Wan said on Friday that if the government showed sufficient courage and vigour it could overcome that obstacle.
He said the units, stacked three to five high, would not block views from Disneyland and that the location was convenient, with a railway station nearby.
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Speaking on the same programme, tourism sector lawmaker Yiu Si-wing supported the proposed garden and said it could attract tourists. But he agreed that part of the land could be released for prefabricated homes, if practical.