Tuen Mun New Town

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Tuen Mun New Town
屯門新市鎮
Neighbourhood
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Residential blocks at the Butterfly Bay, Tuen Mun New Town
Etymology: Tuen Mun
Nickname(s): 
Tuen Mun Town, Castle Peak New Town
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Tuen Mun New Town
Tuen Mun New Town in Hong Kong
Coordinates: 22°23′30″N113°58′38″E / 22.39163°N 113.9770885°E / 22.39163; 113.9770885
CountryChina
SAR Hong Kong
Region New Territories
District Tuen Mun
Founded1966;58 years ago (1966)
Area
 • Total22.6 km2 (8.7 sq mi)
Time zone UTC+8 (Hong Kong Time)
source for area size: [1]

今天看來，當初的規劃的確陸續得以實現，市中心確實是屯門的重心。

— 黃君健 [Kenneth Wong Kwan-kin], 屯門新市鎮的發展, 香港地區史研究之四：屯門 (2012) [2] : 154 

In 1971, the section of the town that encompassing the existing market town San Hui was considered as the most-valuable land for high-rise private residential use. [4] : 60  These residential area are designated as Tuen Mun Area 10, 11 and 13 in the OZP, which they are bordering one to another. Area 11 also accommodated the planned town centre.[ sic ] [4] : 60  Tuen Mun Area 34, due west to Area 11 and 13, was designed to be an open space. [4] : 62  Area 34 is now known as Tuen Mun Park. [15] News reports also consider residential blocks of the Trend Plaza  [ zh ], Kam Wah Garden, Tuen Mun Town Plaza and Waldorf Garden  [ zh ] are the four major residential estates of the town centre. [16] In urban zoning, they were located at the aforementioned Area 11, as well as on a small strip of Area 37 of the Tuen Mun OZP. [15] Another private residential estate, Tuen Mun Centre (Chinese :屯門中心大廈), is situated at Area 10, which also marked as the site of the San Hui. [15] Another land lease, Tuen Mun Town Lot №513, which was sold by the government in 2014, was also considered as next to the town centre and the railway station by the real estate critics. [17]

Nowadays, near to the Tuen Mun railway station, are Tuen Mun Town Hall, Tuen Mun Public Library, Tuen Mun Clinic, Tuen Mun Government Offices, Tuen Mun Law Courts, Tuen Mun Park, as well as shopping centres such as V City, The Trend Plaza Shopping Arcade, Tuen Mun Town Plaza shopping centre, as well as pentahotel Tuen Mun, etc. [18] Those public facilities were mostly located in Area 11 as well as Area 37, while the V City and its associated residential blocks, are located in Area 10. [15] The railway station itself is located above the river, which divides Area 10 to Area 9. [15]

Politics

Some constituencies of the Tuen Mun District Council serve the new town, although the boundaries of the constituencies differ from the boundaries of the urban planning OZP. The executive branch of the district-level government, the Tuen Mun District Office of the Home Affairs Department, is located on the second floor of Tuen Mun Government Offices, [19] a building located within the new town at 1 Tuen Hi Road.

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