Tseung Kwan O New Town

Tseung Kwan O 將軍澳
Tseung Kwan O New Town
SAR	Hong Kong
District	Sai Kung
Development began	Late 1980s
Area
• Total	10.05 km2 (3.88 sq mi)
Population (2012)
• Total	372,000
• Density	37,000/km2 (96,000/sq mi)
Website	www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/sk/tc

Tseung Kwan O New Town (Chinese: 將軍澳新市鎮) is one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, built mainly on reclaimed land in the northern half of Tseung Kwan O, after which it is named.

Although lying within the Sai Kung District in the southeastern New Territories, the new town is often incorrectly regarded as part of Kowloon due to its close proximity to the city. The total development area of Tseung Kwan O, including its industrial estate, is about 10.05 square kilometres (3.88 sq mi).

The Hong Kong Government had been interested in developing a new town at Hang Hau because of its proximity to the urban area. The project was postponed for a long time owing to the extensive scale of reclamation in the bay, which is rather deep. It finally started under the name of Tseung Kwan O.

The New Town was developed in three phases. The first phase encompassing Northern Tseung Kwan O, which includes Po Lam MTR Station and Hang Hau Station, while the second and third phase encompassing Southern Tseung Kwan O, which includes Tseung Kwan O Station (Town Centre) and Tiu Keng Leng Station.

The planning of the new town centred along the MTR-corridor, with more than 80% of the population living within five minutes of an MTR station, with huge residential complexes surrounding the MTR stations. As most of the residential complexes surrounds the MTR station, there are huge parks in the rest of Tseung Kwan O New Town.

The Wings (Chinese: 天晉) is another private housing estate, with shopping mall PopCorn and two hotels, in Tsueng Kwan O. The estate is solely developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, comprising 4 buildings with total of 784 flats completed in 2012