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Sai Wan Estate
Sai Wan Estate
Map
General information
LocationCentral and Western District, Hong Kong
StatusCompleted
CategoryPublic Housing Estate
Area382-606 ft²
Population2,100
No. of blocks5
No. of units636
Construction
Constructed1958; 66 years ago (1958)
Other information
Governing
body		Hong Kong Housing Authority
Website[1]
Sai Wan Estate bird's eye view
Sai Wan Estate front entrance
Sai Wan Estate by night

Sai Wan Estate (Chinese: 西環邨) is a public housing estate in Kennedy Town, Sai Wan, Hong Kong. Built in 1958 and 1959, it sits in a hillside that had to be extensively cut away for its construction.[1][2] The estate comprises 640 flats in five linear blocks of 10 to 14 storeys.[3] It is the only public housing estate in Central and Western District developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and it is the second oldest existing public housing estate built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority, after Model Housing Estate.[1]

Sai Wan Estate was designed by government architect Stanley Feltham.[4]

Despite its age, in 2008 the Housing Authority decided not to redevelop the estate in the short term. Instead, repair works were planned to be carried out in the buildings to sustain the estate for the following 15 years.[5]

Houses

Name[6] Type[6] Completion[6]
Centre Terrace Old Slab 1958
East Terrace
North Terrace
South Terrace
West Terrace

Politics

Sai Wan Estate is located in Kennedy Town & Mount Davis constituency of the Central and Western District Council.[7] It was formerly represented by Cherry Wong Kin-ching, who was elected in the 2019 elections until June 2021.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Architectural Association (Great Britain) (1962). "Housing Estates". Architectural Association Journal. 78.
  2. ^ Sai Wan Estate Improvement Programme
  3. ^ Comprehensive Structural Investigation of Aged Public Housing Estates
  4. ^ Ng, Joyce (7 August 2013). "Heritage advisers to rate historic political retreat Fanling Lodge". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  5. ^ So Uk Estate to be cleared in phases Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b c Hong Kong Housing Authority - Sai Wan Estate
  7. ^ "Recommended District Council Constituency Areas (Central and Western District)" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Central and Western District Council - List of Former Central and Western DC Members". District Council. Retrieved 17 February 2022.

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