Po Tat Estate

Po Tat Estate (Chinese: 寶達邨), formerly called Po Lam Road Housing Development (Chinese: 寶琳路房屋發展), is a public housing estate at the junction of Po Lam Road and Sau Mau Ping Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Sau Mau Ping Estate and Tseung Kwan O Tunnel. It consists of 13 blocks and a shopping centre. In 2016, it housed a population of 24,642.

Po Tat Estate
Po Tat Estate
Chinese寶達邨
Cantonese Yalebóu daaht chyūn
New Cruciform blocks of Po Tat Estate
Tat Cheung House (top) and Po Tat Shopping Centre (bottom)

A Monkey God Temple is located at Po Tat Estate.[1] The Monkey King Festival is celebrated there.

Background

Before Po Tat Estate was constructed, the site was a cement plant[2] and part of the Anderson Road and Po Lam Road were laid on there. Its Phase 1, 2 and 4 consists of 6 blocks and a shopping centre completed in 2001.[3][4] Another six blocks originally belonged to a HOS estate, Hiu Lam Court (Chinese: 曉琳苑), but they were transferred to rental housing and occupied in 2003.[5][6][7]

Houses
Name (Block no.)[8]TypeCompletion
Tat Hong House (Block 2)Harmony 1 Option 6 (Late third Gen.)2001
Tat Fu House (Block 3)
Tat Chui House (Block 5)
Tat Yan House (Block 6)
Tat Yi House (Block 7)
Tat Fung House (Block 4)Harmony 1 Option 10 (Late third Gen.)
Tat Cheung House (Block 1)Small Household Block
Tat Hei House (Block A)New Cruciform2003
Tat Shun House (Block B)
Tat Kai House (Block C)
Tat Hin House (Block D)
Tat Kwai House (Block E)
Tat On House (Block F)

Demographics

In the 2016 by-census, Po Tat Estate recorded a population of 24,642. There were 7,391 households and an average household size of 3.3 persons.[9]

Transport

At present, residents of Po Tat Estate are reliant on road transport, primarily buses and minibuses. In the future, a new station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) may be built at the estate under the East Kowloon Line concept, which was proposed by the Transport and Housing Bureau in the Railway Development Strategy 2014. That document suggested that the new railway line may be built between 2019 and 2025.[10]

References
  1. Hong Kong Tourism Board: Monkey God Festival
  2. 寶達村 (Chinese)
  3. ITEM FOR PUBLIC WORKS SUBCOMMITTEE OF FINANCE COMMITTEE
  4. KOWLOON DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME NEW RECLAMATIONS/DEVELOPMENT AREAS Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Ten-month moratorium on the sale of Home Ownership Scheme flats
  7. Disposal of Surplus Home Ownership Scheme (HOS)/Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS) Flats
  8. Po Tat Estate
  9. "Major Housing Estates". 2016 Population By-census. Census and Statistics Department. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  10. "Railway Development Strategy 2014" (PDF). Transport and Housing Bureau. September 2014.

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