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Designing Utilities for a Rural Setting in Hong Kong
- 1. Another blot on the landscape How the provision of utilities on Lamma Island has defaced the rural environment
- 4. ELECTRICITY As if the power station was not bad enough……..
- 5. Substations are everywhere, and they are all ugly
- 7. And another…
- 8. And another…
- 9. And another…
- 10. And another…
- 11. And another (nice view of the harbour)
- 12. WATER SERVICES providing, most visibly, concrete and fire hydrants (in duplicate)
- 13. Again…
- 14. And again…
- 15. And again…
- 16. And again…
- 17. And leaving behind a mess
- 18. That Lamma’s kids and parents cleaned up
- 19. WASTE The bin areas are a disgrace
- 20. Though FEHD cleans up every day, the mess returns, and the design of the bins does not help
- 21. Recycling is an add on and the facilities are very limited
- 22. And often the bins are misused by well intentioned members of the public (this bin is for cans)
- 23. DRAINAGE The Drainage Services Department takes away natural streams and replaces them with concrete nullahs
- 24. Some of these have caused dirty water to back up inland, bringing silt and other rubbish
- 25. All of them have caused eyesores
- 26. There is no sensitivity in design, just concrete, open pipes and metal railings. Is this in keeping with the planning intention for Lamma?
- 27. SEWAGE Phase 1 of the sewage scheme, turned Yung Shue Wan into a building site and rubbish dump
- 28. Every neighbourhood affected had a ‘temporary works site’ that became a open rubbish bin
- 32. Despite the planning intention, Lamma’s key features are becoming the concrete,
- 33. The pipes (with concrete!)
- 34. And the metal fences and railings (thankfully the barbed wire came down after residents complained, and Living Lamma has managed to get government to paint the railings, but there are many more examples)
- 35. Work sites continue to be rubbish dumps
- 36. That members of the public end up tidying up