Notes from Sai Kung District Council meeting held 3 January 2017 (Tuesday)

There were two items on the agenda which affect our area.

1)

(SKDC(M) Paper No. 19/17). Request the Development Bureau to promptly construct a flyover from the roundabout at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to the junction of Ah Kung Wan Road via Tai Po Tsai Village to connect Hiram’s Highway with Tseung Kwan O Tunnel and Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin Tunnel with a view to easing the serious traffic congestion at Clear Water Bay Road due to inadequate traffic lanes. The Transport Department is looking into this. Its response to the DC’s request was a typical bureaucratic holding operation.

2)

http://www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/sk/doc/2016_2019/en/dc_meetings_doc/12259/SK_2017_013_EN.pdf Illegal Shop Extension and Obstruction of Public Places. “The working group formed by representatives of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, the Lands Department, the Hong Kong Police Force and the Sai Kung District Office (SKDO) started organizing their work in August 2016 to tackle the following blackspots in the district: for the pavement of Po Hong Road off Beverly Garden in Tseung Kwan O and Sai Kung Town (including Man Yee Playground, King Man Street and Chan Man Street), publicity strategies and joint operation arrangements were devised. Publicity leaflets, posters and advisory letters on the fixed penalty system against illegal shop extension and obstruction of public places were distributed to shops and restaurants in the district by the SKDO together with Members of the SKDC in the latter half of September 2016 to call for the self-discipline of shop operators. In addition, the Sai Kung District Management Committee held a talk on “Improvement of the Environmental Hygiene and Townscape of Sai Kung” on 30 September 2016, inviting representatives of organizations such as restaurants and shops, kaifong associations, trade associations of the catering business and fishermen in Sai Kung district to exchange their views with the departmental representatives on how to improve the environmental hygiene and townscape of Sai Kung. The relevant departments launched their joint enforcement actions in November and December 2016. On the whole, shop owners were cooperative and the situation of illegal shop extension and obstruction of public places has now been obviously improved”.