Tung Tau Estate

Tung Tau Estate (Chinese: 東頭邨) is a public housing estate and Tenants Purchase Scheme estate in the south of Wong Tai Sin, located between San Po Kong and Kowloon City, in Hong Kong. It was first built in the 1960s as resettlement housing, but has since been reconstructed.

Tung Tau Estate
Aerial view (2010). The long building in the foreground, Block 22, has since been demolished.
General information
Location	Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon Hong Kong
Coordinates	22.3334°N 114.1924°E
Status	Complete
Category	Public rental housing, Tenants Purchase Scheme
Population	15,562 (2016)
No. of blocks	20

It was divided into Tung Tau (I) Estate (東頭(一)邨) and Tung Tau (II) Estate (東頭(二)邨). The sole remaining housing block of Tung Tau (I) Estate was subsequently demolished. Tung Tau (II) Estate has 20 blocks built during the redevelopment in the 1980s and the 1990s.

Background

In the 1960s, Tung Tau Estate was built as a resettlement estate which had a total of 23 blocks (21 Mark II and two Mark IV blocks).[1] Mark II blocks were rudimentary structures built to fulfil emergency housing needs, while the other two blocks were of the Old Slab typology. The 21 Mark II blocks of Tung Tau Estate housed approximately 49,200 people in 7,750 households, as well as around 586 shops.[2]

All 21 Mark II blocks were demolished to make way for 20 new blocks in the 1980s and the 1990s. In 2002, some of the flats on the estate (except Block 22) were sold to tenants through the Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5.[3]

The two remaining resettlement-era blocks, numbered 22 and 23, were redeveloped later. Block 23 was demolished in 2003. That site was redeveloped as a separate housing estate, Tung Wui Estate, composed of two housing blocks and a community centre. The new estate began accepting residents in 2012.[4][5]

Block 22, built in 1965 and housing 906 domestic flats, was subject to structural investigations by the Housing Department in 2007. The block required costly repairs, and it was decided to redevelop the site instead.[6][7][8] Block 22 was the sole remaining block of Tung Tau (I) Estate.[9] Po Yan Oblate Primary School, which was connected to Block 22 but in good structural condition, was retained.[6] The site of Block 22, like that of Block 23, has been incorporated into the new Tung Wui Estate, and a new housing block (Wui Chi House) has been built there.

Houses

Open space

Covered walkway

Name[10][11]	Type	Completion
Hong Tung House	Old Slab	1981
Yue Tung House	Single H	1982
Yiu Tung House		1985
Fu Tung House	Double H
Tai Tung House
Wong Tung House	Linear 3	1987
Hing Tung House		1992
Cheung Tung House
On Tung House
Choi Tung House	Linear 1
Yan Tung House		1988
Yat Tung House
Ying Tung House
Shing Tung House
Mau Tung House
Wai Tung House		1990
Wing Tung House
Pak Tung House
Chun Tung House	Trident 4	1991
Kwai Tung House

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, the estate had a population of 15,562. The median age was 51.4. Over 97 per cent of residents were of Chinese ethnicity. The dominant spoken language was Cantonese.[12]

Politics

Locally, the estate is represented on Wong Tai Sin District Council. It falls within two constituencies:

• Tung Tau constituency comprises the southern part of the estate, Tung Wui Estate, and some other neighbouring buildings. Since the 2019 election, it has been represented by Hiroko Wan Chi-chung of People Power.[13]
• Tung Mei constituency principally comprises the northern part of Tung Tau Estate and nearby Mei Tung Estate. Since 2015, it has been represented by Sze Tak-loy of the ADPL.[13]

In the Legislative Council, Tung Tau Estate falls within the Kowloon East geographic constituency, which elects five members to the council.

References

1. 徙置區 (Chinese)
2. Cheung, Chi Keung (August 1993). A Review of the Redevelopment of Public Housing Estates: A Case Study of Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate. The University of Hong Kong. p. 13.
3. Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5
4. Redevelopment of Block 23 Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
5. Minutes of meeting held on Tuesday, 24 October 2000, at 8:30 am in the Chamber of the Legislative Council Building
6. "Chapter 2: Planning, construction, and redevelopment of public rental housing flats" (PDF). Report No. 62 of the Director of Audit. Audit Commission. 4 April 2014.
7. Tung Tau Estate block to be cleared Archived 2008-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
8. Tung Tau Estate Block 22
9. Clearance Arrangement for Tung Tau (I) Estate Block 22
10. Tung Tau (I) Estate
11. Tung Tau (II) Estate
12. "Major Housing Estates". 2016 Population By-census. Census and Statistics Department. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
13. "Election Results (Wong Tai Sin)". District Council Election 2019. Registration and Electoral Office.

External links

• Media related to Tung Tau Estate at Wikimedia Commons