LCQ22: Number of New Territories small houses

​Following is a question by the Hon Andrew Lam and a written reply by the Secretary for Development, Ms Bernadette Linn, in the Legislative Council today (October 7): Question: There are views suggesting that urban-rural integration is one of the core concepts underpinning the Government's promotion of the development of the Northern Metropolis (NM), and that the original village houses play an important role in the NM during its transitional development phase. Introduced in 1972, the New Territories Small House Policy allows a male indigenous villager aged 18 years old or above who is descended through a male line from a resident of a recognised village in the New Territories of Hong Kong, to apply for permission to erect, for once in his lifetime, a small house for himself on a suitable site within his own village. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council: (1) of the number of residential properties built to date on old house sites (i.e. land in the New Territories registered for house site use under the 1905 Block Government Lease), and the number of sites on which no construction has taken place; (2) of the respective numbers to date of small houses that have

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