Laguna City

Laguna City is built along Lam Tin's waterfront. Part of Laguna City is built on reclaimed land. The development is adjacent to Cha Kwo Ling Village, one of the last squatter villages in Hong Kong.{{cite news | last = Ng | first = June | title = Still Standing | newspaper = HK Magazine | date = 14 May 2010 | url = http://hk.asia-city.com/city-living/article/still-standing | access-date = 13 May 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110129173432/http://hk.asia-city.com/city-living/article/still-standing | archive-date = 29 January 2011 | url-status = dead}}

In the late 1980s, Cheung Kong acquired two pieces of land in Lam Tin, one being a former Shell oil depot, now the Laguna City, the other above the newly built Lam Tin MTR station and bus terminus, which was developed into the Sceneway Garden respectively.[http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/wrap_en2/hse9607/Annex/A6A_E.HTM Market Behaviour of Developers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203192948/http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/wrap_en2/hse9607/Annex/A6A_E.HTM |date=3 February 2007 }} – Consumer Council. Retrieved 18 February 2007.{{Cite thesis |last= Leung|first=Sum-cheung|title=Planning in Hong Kong for industrial relocation|url=http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/39750|year= 1996|degree=Master of Science in Urban Planning|publisher= University of Hong Kong|access-date= 15 September 2014}} Laguna City was completed in 1991 and Sceneway Garden was completed in 1992.

Laguna City consists of four phases, totalling 38 towers at its 1991 completion. There are 3 private roads in Laguna City, which are Laguna Street in phase 1 and 4, Laguna Street East in phase 2 and Laguna Street South in phase 3. Phases 1, 2 and 4 of Laguna City are managed by the same company, while phase 3 has an independent management authority. Similarly, Phases 1, 2 and 4 share an owners' committee, whereas Phase 3 has its own. Census data indicate that Laguna City had a population of 23,354 in 2011.2011 Population Census: [http://www.census2011.gov.hk/en/major-housing-estate/60959.html Fact Sheet for Laguna City in Kwun Tong District Council ]. For the purpose of the 2011 census, each of the "Major Housing Estates", among which South Horizons was listed, had its own census data entry. Such estates were thus defined: "A group of residential buildings developed by the same developer (either in the public sector or in the private sector) in one or more phases in a neighbourhood and with at least 3,000 residents or 1,000 domestic households in 2011."

Built together with Laguna City was Laguna Park, which was completed in 1994 and then handed over to the Urban Council, now the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Laguna Park has a total area of 30,000 sq m (320,000 ft²).

File:Laguna City ph 2,3.JPG|Phase 2 & 3, Laguna City with Victoria Harbour background.

File:HK Kwun Tong 麗港城商場 Laguna Plaza Interior 3 floors.JPG|Interior of the Laguna Plaza shopping centre.

File:HK Kwun Tong 麗港公園 Laguna Park 偉業街 Wai Yip Street entrance 麗港城 Laguna City.JPG|Laguna Park entrance

• 3 shopping centres, which are Laguna Plaza, Centre de Laguna and Laguna Arcade.
• 2 resident club house
• 1 park
• a few children playgrounds and jogging trails
• 1 pet park located near Laguna City in Kwun Tong Ferry Pier Square.
• 5 tennis court
• 2 basketball court
• 1 soccer pitch
• 1 public transport interchange with 3 bus routes and 2 minibus routes.
• 2 kindergartens
• Hong Kong Public Libraries mobile library Laguna City stop (Next to Laguna City Clubhouse 1)

Laguna City is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 48. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Kwun Tong Government Primary School.{{cite web|url=https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/primary-secondary/spa-systems/primary-1-admission/school-lists/2023dpnet-48b.pdf|title=POA School Net 48|publisher=Education Bureau|accessdate=2022-09-12}}

Blocks 5 and 7 of Laguna City were put under a coronavirus lockdown at 7pm on 31 January 2021, until 1 February. [https://hongkongfp.com/2021/02/01/in-pictures-hong-kong-imposes-third-overnight-covid-19-lockdown-no-cases-found-after-400-tested/ HK Free Press]

• South Horizons, a private housing estate at Ap Lei Chau, was built from 1991 to 1995 by Hutchison Whampoa, partially on the former site of a Shell oil depot.
• Sceneway Garden, a private housing estate next to Laguna City, both connected by the Lam Tin MTR station.

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