The Housing Bureau (IH) has decided to “revert” eight plots of land, which are still undeveloped, in the Iao Hon district back to the government.
According to an executive order by Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário, the eight 193-square-metre plots are next to each other in a block.
Dilapidated residential buildings were demolished on the eight plots in 2009 for an urban renewal project planned at that time which, however, never got off the ground.
Part of the area was converted into a temporary recreational space over a decade ago, while a temporary building was constructed and used as the office of a now-defunct consultative committee on the city’s urban renewal process.
The temporary low-rise building was demolished a few years ago, and now the whole area is a temporary recreational area.
The eight plots are still undeveloped, and the government is now planning to earmark the plots for a “more reasonable” use.
The eight plots had previously been granted to the IH as leaseholds, however the bureau has decided to relinquish them.
The government said last year that it planned to earmark the area of the eight plots for the first urban renewal project for the residents of the dilapidated Iao Hon Estate, which comprises seven groups of low-rise buildings, The Macau Post Daily reported.
