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15-510: The estate was often described as the last resettlement estate in Hong Kong. Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate was formerly Ngau Tau Kok Village . It was built in the 1967 to 1969 as a resettlement estate. Ngau Tau Kok Estate was split into Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate and Upper Ngau Tau Kok Estate in 1973. Blocks 8 to 12 were the first resettlement blocks in Hong Kong to be built with prefabricated parts. Year of intake for Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate

30-418: A Mark I block. It began when a fire destroyed Shek Kip Mei in 1953. The government built two-story bungalows to accommodate the fire victims. It would later become Shek Kip Mei Estate . The blocks would later evolve into Mark blocks and would be known as Multi-Story Housing . The name for these estates at the time would be called "old or new". The areas would later redevelop and rebuilt multiple times in

45-663: A radical shift from the laissez-faire philosophy of the Government. In order to resettle the homeless refugees in a short period of time, Holmes took the lead to construct a number of resettlement estates on the burnt ground in Shek Kip Mei and in its neighboring area. Some of the notable examples included Shek Kip Mei Estate and Tai Hang Tung Estate . After the creation of the Resettlement Department, constructing public housing estate for resettling

60-446: A slab block. Early blocks have small units. The height may vary by type. The conditions are poor. Early blocks have no bathroom and kitchen, making it unhabitable by modern standards. Later designs incorporated a kitchen and a bathroom. Three of the types of resettlement blocks (from Mark I to Mark VI) have yet to be demolished. The types are: Resettlement Department The Resettlement Department ( Chinese : 徙置事務處 )

75-770: The Housing authority launched the final phase of Comprehensive Planning . Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Lee Wai Sze , Hong Kong track cyclist, Silver medalist in 2012 London Olympics. Resettlement Area Resettlement Areas , or Resettlement Estates ( Chinese : 徙置區 ) are an early form of public housing in Hong Kong . They were built between 1954 and 1975. The designs used are Mark I to Mark VII. Most are found in

90-514: The new towns of Hong Kong ( Kwun Tong , Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, and Yuen Long). It was managed by the Resettlement Department . In 1973, it was organized into Hong Kong Housing Authority . Then, resettlement areas began to be referred as 'estates'. It was classified as 'Category B Public Housing Estates'. Newer housing projects are called 'Category A Public Housing Estates'. Today, only Mei Ho House remains standing as

105-725: The disaster, then Governor Sir Alexander Grantham ordered Ronald Holmes to establish the Resettlement Department and appointed him as the Deputy Colonial Secretary and the first Commissioner of Resettlement . The Resettlement Department was formed from sections of the Public Works Department , the Social Welfare Department , and the Urban Services Department . The development of public housing marked

120-528: The estate. Most of them took photos and videos in the estate, and had a meal in the estate's many restaurants. The Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate will be six blocks of housing estate which consists more than 30 storeys and the maximum height will be 46 storeys. They were completed in 2012. Part of the site of the former estate will also be used for the construction of the East Kowloon Cultural Centre , slated to open in 2021. In June 2000,

135-671: The later years. An example of this is Kwai Chung Estate . The Resettlement Department has 25 such estates located all over Hong Kong. The estates contained seven types of blocks, ranging from Mark I to Mark VII, in which it began to be considered to be a slab block . Six of them were managed by the former agency, and the seventh one would later be managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority . Mark I and Mark II blocks are only seven stories tall, which were short by today's standards. The first two blocks are also H-shaped. Some blocks are named with English wording . Usually,

150-537: The naming scheme has only 25 letters in the alphabet , since I is omitted due to it having confusion with the number 1. For example, the scheme goes from the first to the next, and when all the letters are used, it restarts all over again, like AA and BB. Mei Ho House is the only Mark I or Mark II block standing. Mark Blocks are an early type of public housing that preceded the designs of modern public housing blocks. There are seven types of Mark blocks. It improved by each design, from Mark I as H-shaped to Mark VII as

165-518: The nuisance created by the many people visiting the old estate before its evacuation. The Housing Authority has commissioned local photographers and video production companies to document the buildings and the life of their occupants. A cultural path will be built at the new Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate to house the relics of the old estate. Other than those commissioned by the Housing Authority, many local residents and tourists paid visits to

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180-572: The poor people became one of the primary policy goals set by the government in postwar Hong Kong. In October 1955, when he succeeded the retired Harold Giles Richards as the Director of Urban Services , Ronald Holmes stepped down from the Resettlement Department and was succeeded by Arthur Walton as Commissioner of Resettlement. The Resettlement Department built a total of 25 housing estates between 1954 and 1973. The ten-year public housing programme proposed by Governor Sir Murray MacLehose led to

195-647: Was 1967. It has six streets that surround the estate . The first half of the original estate, Lower Ngau Tau Kok (I) Estate, was demolished in 2004. The demolition works of the remaining half, Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate, started in March 2010 and are being conducted by the China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited . Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate comprised 5,400 flats in seven Mark V resettlement blocks. Apartment sizes ranged from 8.2m to 39.4 m. Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate

210-821: Was a department of the Government of Hong Kong , responsible for constructing resettlement estates for homeless refugees, established in 1954. In 1973, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the Urban Services Department were merged to form the Housing Department , which acts as the Housing Authority 's executive body. In December 1953, a major fire destroyed the slum area in Shek Kip Mei and more than 50,000 refugees from Mainland China were made homeless. After

225-458: Was among the first group of resettlement estates built with lifts. Lifts from the ground floor could reach the 8th and the 13th floors. Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate was also known for its dai pai dongs and cha chaan tengs , as well as the bazaars and shops surrounding each block. In the last months before its evacuation, Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate had 3,100 households and 160 commercial tenants. People living and working there complained about

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