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The following is a list of public housing estates in Sheung Shui Town, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Sandwich Class Housing Scheme (SCHS), Flat-for-Sale Scheme (FFSS), and Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) estates.

Overview

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Name Type Inaug. No Blocks No Units Notes
Cheung Lung Wai Estate 祥龍圍邨 Public 2015 2 1,358
Ching Ho Estate 清河邨 Public 2007 8 7,200
Choi Po Court 彩蒲苑 HOS 1984 4 2,112
Choi Yuen Estate 彩園邨 Public 1982 6 5,076
On Shing Court 安盛苑 HOS 1990 1 612
Po Shek Wu Estate 寶石湖邨 Public 2019 3 1,144
Sunningdale Garden 順欣花園 PSPS 1992 4 830
Tai Ping Estate 太平邨 TPS 1989 4 424
Tin Ping Estate 天平邨 TPS 1986 7 1,522
Tsui Lai Garden 翠麗花園 PSPS 1990 6 2,012
Yuk Po Court 旭埔苑 HOS 1982 8 1,248

Cheung Lung Wai Estate

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Main article: Cheung Lung Wai Estate
Cheung Lung Wai Estate

Cheung Lung Wai Estate is the latest public estate in North District. It had two blocks built in 2015.

Name[1] Type Completion
Ching Cheung House (Block 1) Non-standard (Cruciform) 2015
King Cheung House (Block 2)

Ching Ho Estate

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Main article: Ching Ho Estate
Ching Ho Estate

Ching Ho Estate (Chinese: 清河邨) is the second latest public estate in North District. Its name, "Ching Ho", means "clear river" in Chinese.[2]

The estate is developed into there phases, with a total of eight "New Harmony" residential buildings and a shopping centre. Phase 3 consists of three blocks completed in 2007.[3] Phase 2 and Phase 1 consists of a total of five blocks and the shopping centre completed in 2008.[4][5][6]

Name[7] Type Completion
Ching Chak House New Harmony 1 2007
Ching Long House
Ching Chiu House
Ching Chung House 2008
Ching Ping House
Ching Yun House
Ching Yu House New Harmony 1 with New Harmony Annex 5
Ching Hin House

Ching Long House was placed under lockdown for mandatory covid test on 15 February 2022.[8]

Choi Po Court

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Main article: Choi Yuen Estate
Choi Po Court

Choi Po Court (Chinese: 彩蒲苑) is an HOS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town, near Choi Yuen Estate[9] and Sheung Shui station. It had four blocks built in 1982.

Name[10] Type Completion
Choi Ying House Windwill 1982
Choi Ching House
Choi Pik House
Choi Ngan House

Choi Yuen Estate

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Main article: Choi Yuen Estate
Choi Yuen Estate

Choi Yuen Estate (Chinese: 彩園邨) is a public estate located near Sheung Shui station and Landmark North in Sheung Shui Town.[11][12] It is the first public housing estate in North District,[13] which consists of 6 residential blocks built between 1981 and 1983.

The site of Choi Yuen Estate was formerly occupied by vegetable farms and the nearby village was called Tsoi Yuen Tsuen (Chinese: 菜園村), which meant Vegetable Farm Village in Chinese.[14] In the 1970s, the vegetable farms were removed to construct Choi Yuen Estate; "菜園村" and "彩園邨" sound almost the same except the tone of the character "菜" / "彩". In the 1990s, the village was demolished to build Landmark North, one of the largest shopping malls in North District.

Name[15] Type Completion
Choi Yuk House Old Slab 1981
Choi Ping House
Choi Chu House
Choi Lai House
Choi Wu House Triple H
Choi Wah House 1983

Po Shek Wu Estate

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Main article: Po Shek Wu Estate
Po Shek Wu Estate

Po Shek Wu Estate (Chinese: 寶石湖邨) is a public housing estate at the junction of Po Shek Wu Road and Choi Yuen Road in Sheung Shui, near MTR Sheung Shui station. It comprises 3 blocks of 25, 29 and 33 storeys on a 3-storeyed carpark podium including one semi-basement storey for car park at a total number of 1,144 units. One ancillary facility block including socket-H pile foundation, superstructure and E&M services, one kindergarten, ground floor retail facilities and roof garden site formation and slope upgrading works.[16]

Name[17] Type Completion
Shan Wu House Non-standard 2019
Tsz Jing House
Bik Yuk House

On Shing Court

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Main article: Tin Ping Estate
On Shing Court

On Shing Court (Chinese: 安盛苑) is a HOS court in Sheung Shui, near Tin Ping Estate.[18] It had only one block built in 1990.

Name[19] Type Completion
On Shing Court Trident 4 1990

Sunningdale Garden

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Main article: Sunningdale Garden
Sunningdale Garden

Sunningdale Garden (Chinese: 順欣花園) is a PSPS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town, near Sheung Shui Town Centre and Shek Wu Hui.[9][20] It had four blocks built in 1992.

Name[21] Type Completion
Block 1 Private Sector Participation Scheme 1992
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4

Tai Ping Estate

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Main article: Tai Ping Estate
Tai Ping Estate

Tai Ping Estate (Chinese: 太平邨) is a mixed public and TPS housing estate consisting of four residential buildings completed in 1989. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5 in 2002.[22][23]

Name[24] Type Completion
Ping Chi House Linear 1 1989
Ping Ching House
Ping Hay House
Ping Yee House

Tin Ping Estate

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Main article: Tin Ping Estate
Tin Ping Estate

Tin Ping Estate (Chinese: 天平邨) is the northernmost mixed public and TPS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town. It consists of seven residential buildings completed between 1986 and 1990. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3 in 2000.[25]

Name[26] Type Completion
Tin Yee House Trident 2 1986
Tin Cheung House
Tin Hor House
Tin Mei House Trident 3 1989
Tin Hee House
Tin Long House Trident 4 1990
Tin Ming House New Slab 1990

Tsui Lai Garden

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Main article: Tsui Lai Garden
Tsui Lai Garden

Tsui Lai Garden (Chinese: 翠麗花園) is a PSPS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town, near North District Sports Ground.[27][28] It has six blocks built in 1990.

Name[29] Type Completion
Block 1 Private Sector Participation Scheme 1990
Block 2
Block 3
Block 4
Block 5
Block 6

Yuk Po Court

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Main article: Choi Yuen Estate
Yuk Po Court

Yuk Po Court (Chinese: 旭埔苑) is an HOS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town, near Choi Yuen Estate[9] and Sheung Shui station. It had eight blocks built in 1982.

Name[30] Type Completion
Ching Wu House Old-Cruciform 1982
Ming Wu House
Tong Wu House
Hon Wu House
Chun Wu House
Chow Wu House
Seung Wu House
Tsun Wu House

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cheung Lung Wai Estate
  2. ^ Naming of Public Housing Estate at Fanling Area 36
  3. ^ Domestic Rents for New Estate
  4. ^ Ching Ho Shopping Centre
  5. ^ Domestic Rents for New Estates
  6. ^ HA sets rents for new estates
  7. ^ Ching Ho Estate
  8. ^ "Covid hit 393 more buildings in HK, including 65 in Yuen Long".
  9. ^ a b c Sheung Shui Integrated Family Service Centre
  10. ^ Choi Po Court
  11. ^ Provision of Facilities and/or Open Space required under lease for the use by the public in private developments completed in or after 1987 (as at October 2008)
  12. ^ Sheung Shui Station
  13. ^ Government Planned Development
  14. ^ Comparison between Tsoi Yuen Tsuen and Choi Yuen Estate
  15. ^ Choi Yuen Estate
  16. ^ Hanison Construction Company Limited
  17. ^ Special Conditions of Tender: Po Shek Wu Estate – Shop
  18. ^ Tin Ping Sports Centre
  19. ^ On Shing Court
  20. ^ Sheung Shui
  21. ^ Sunningdale Garden
  22. ^ Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5 to be sold at favourable prices
  23. ^ Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5
  24. ^ Tai Ping Estate
  25. ^ Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3
  26. ^ Tin Ping Estate
  27. ^ "CEDD - Archives". www.cedd.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 29 March 2007.
  28. ^ List of Home Ownership Scheme Courts
  29. ^ Tsui Lai Garden
  30. ^ Yuk Po Court
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