Long Ping Estate
{{short description|Public housing estate in Yuen Long, Hong Kong}}
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| location = 1 Long Ping Road, Yuen Long
New Territories, Hong Kong
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| status = Completed
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| population date = 2016
| population = 23,687{{Cite web|title=Major Housing Estates|url=https://www.bycensus2016.gov.hk/en/bc-dp-major-hosing-estates.html|website=2016 Population By-census|publisher=Census and Statistics Department|access-date=1 October 2021}}
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Long Ping Estate ({{zh|t=朗屏邨}}) is a mixed TPS and public housing estate in Wang Chau, Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong, near MTR Long Ping station.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/ch/services/maps/lop.pdf|title=Long Ping Station street map|work=MTR Corporation|access-date=1 October 2021}} It is the third public housing estate in Yuen Long Town and the largest public housing estate in Yuen Long New Town, consisting of fifteen residential blocks completed between 1986 and 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/en/materials/household/flrp/CFL_particpating_buildings_YL.pdf|title=Yuen Long District|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720175222/https://www.wastereduction.gov.hk/en/materials/household/flrp/CFL_particpating_buildings_YL.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=1 October 2021}} Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 6B in 2005.{{Cite web|url=http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/residential/shos/tpsestates/0,,,00.html|title=Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 6B|publisher=Hong Kong Housing Authority|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926225333/http://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/en/residential/shos/tpsestates/0,,,00.html|archive-date=26 September 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=1 October 2021}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200510/23/P200510220105.htm|title=Tenants Purchase Scheme owners carry building maintenance responsibility|newspaper=Hong Kong Government|date=23 October 2005|access-date=1 October 2021}}
Houses
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| Yuet Ping House | 悅屏樓 | rowspan="4" | New slab | rowspan="2" | 1987 |
| Hor Ping House | 賀屏樓 | ||
| Shek Ping House | 石屏樓 | rowspan="6" | 1986 | |
| Kang Ping House | 鏡屏樓 | ||
| Kam Ping House | 錦屏樓 | rowspan="8" | Double H | |
| Sau Ping House | 繡屏樓 | ||
| Chu Ping House | 珠屏樓 | ||
| Po Ping House | 寶屏樓 | ||
| Ngan Ping House | 雁屏樓 | rowspan="4" | 1989 | |
| Yin Ping House | 燕屏樓 | ||
| Fung Ping House | 鳳屏樓 | ||
| Cheuk Ping House | 鵲屏樓 | ||
| Yuk Ping House | 玉屏樓 | rowspan="3" | Trident 2 | 1986 |
| Wah Ping House | 畫屏樓 | rowspan="2" | 1989 | |
| Hay Ping House | 喜屏樓 |
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Long Ping Estate had a population of 23,687. The median age was 45.5 and the majority of residents (97.8 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.9 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$22,500.
Politics
For the 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within two constituencies. Most of the estate is located in the Pek Long constituency, which is currently represented by Kwong Chun-yu,{{Cite web|url=https://www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/yl/english/members/info/dc_member_list_detail.php?member_id=2425|title=Yuen Long District Council - Yuen Long DC Members|work=District Council|access-date=1 October 2021}} while the remainder of the estate falls within the Nam Ping constituency, which is currently represented by Zachary Wong Wai-yin.{{Cite web|title=Recommended District Council Constituency Areas (Yuen Long District)|url=https://www.eac.hk/pdf/distco/2019dc/final/en/M_descriptions(Eng).pdf|work=Electoral Affairs Commission|access-date=1 October 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/yl/english/members/info/dc_member_list_detail.php?member_id=2445|title=Yuen Long District Council - Yuen Long DC Members|work=District Council|access-date=1 October 2021}}
Education
Long Ping Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 73. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and one government school: South Yuen Long Government Primary School (南元朗官立小學).{{cite web|url=https://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/edu-system/primary-secondary/spa-systems/primary-1-admission/school-lists/2023dpnet-73b.pdf|title=POA School Net 73|publisher=Education Bureau|accessdate=2022-10-09}}
See also
References
{{commons category|Long Ping Estate}}
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{{Yuen Long District}}
{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong|state=expanded}}