An owner of a site in Plover Cove Country Park where excavation has polluted a stream running through a beauty spot says the land has been cleared to make way for a HK$200 million park within a park that will be open to the public.
'We only want to build a country park that can benefit the elderly and students,' Albert Leung Sai-on said. 'We cleared the site so we can plant more beautiful and rare trees like incense trees and buddhist pines.'
He said the project upstream from the Bride's Pool waterfall also involved the 'reconstruction' of 11 old village houses, the use of which had not been determined.
He was speaking a day after another owner, Leung Sai-lin, whose name is on the sale and purchase agreement for the site, told the Post they planned to build village houses.
She referred further queries yesterday to Albert Leung, saying he was fully responsible for the project.
He said the park, named Jade Emperor Palace, is a project of the Chun On Group, a property development company of which he is managing director. He said the company had filed an application to the Lands Department, but the department could not confirm receiving it yesterday.