The village of Sai Kung, Xiang Si Wan was revealed to have illegally dug up the “golden ding road”, the Planning Department more than 1 year before prosecution, the upper site appeared a “mysterious ding house” without a contract completion certificate (commonly known as satisfaction paper). The company has been involved in a number of environmental damages, including illegal dumping of mud in the conservation area and the unauthorized construction of a private pier in the coastal protection area to operate a water sports store. However, the villagers have reported various violations of the law, but all of them are not “in trouble”, which is questioned by the Legislative Council members that there is collusion between the government and business.
The mysterious owner of a small house, Huang Ziyang, is involved in renting out a small house without a satisfactory paper, and once offered to sell it for $18 million. The company has been involved in the water sports business since 2016, operating from a shop in the village of Xiang Si Wan, in the early years to organize diving activities, renting speedboats as the main, in recent years began to rent canoes, etc., and will contact boats to carry tourists to the nearby Green Egg Island and the Fruit Island, business is getting bigger. According to sources, Huang and Sai Kung district officials are very familiar, from time to time in the seafood street drinking and dining, playing a good relationship.
A diving source said that the store during the epidemic, visitors are still incessant, single canoe daily rent of HK$ 150 on weekdays, double daily rent of HK$ 250, plus HK$ 50 on holidays, attracting more than 100 people a day, it is estimated that the canoe business alone has a monthly income of $ million. But many residents are worried about the large number of tourists gathering on the shore, obviously violating the ban on gathering, and some people are not wearing masks, residents have to avoid it.
There are other water sports stores on the site, but the store has a “private pier” for customers to drag their canoes into the sea. According to the local pictures before 2018, the shore outside the store is a natural shore and there is only a big rocky mud beach next to the stairs. In 2018, super typhoon “mangosteen” destroyed the breakwater, channel and road, someone involved in the use of mud-plows on the mud beach to bulldoze, falling rocks unauthorized to build a more than 3 meters wide sloping platform to extend into the sea. The East Net reporter recently went to the scene and found that the sloping platform parked dozens of canoes and rental water supplies, many people rented canoes from the store to go to sea, are from the sloping platform into the water.
As there is no public toilet in the vicinity, the store arranged flushing place and toilet in the vicinity to open to customers, but some residents pointed out that due to the high usage, the septic tank is often full, the store discharged excrement to a deserted field in the village of Xiangsiwan, forming a stench, and the nearby residents are crying out in pain. The store was originally a government land, but it became Wong’s private place, and both sides of the road were designated as parking spaces, charging HK$50 per car. The village chief has a close relationship with Wong, and even though he has had altercations with many villagers over problems in the village, the villagers are too angry to speak out.
The government has not taken any follow-up action. The government’s failure to approve the project means the lot may not be suitable for development, and unauthorized alterations are obviously problematic. He understands that the public is tired of fighting against the epidemic, but believes that government departments have the responsibility to step up holiday inspections to prevent crowds from gathering and remind the public not to violate the ban on gathering, “not to say that the countryside is not under the control of the king”.
The Environmental Protection Department replied that it had not received any complaints and would further understand the situation. The Planning Department said it was looking into the incident and would provide a detailed reply later. The Lands Department replied that staff of the Sai Kung District Lands Office had inspected the site earlier and found that the ramp in question was built on government land without permission and that the office would take land control action to stop the occupation. As for the illegal parking, the District Lands Office has referred the police to follow up. The reporter later asked Wong Tsz Yeung about the unauthorized “pier” and the use of government land as a fee-paying parking lot, Wong said: “I don’t know, what are you talking about?
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