The Housing Bureau (IH) has decided to “revert” eight plots of land, which are still undeveloped, in Iao Hon district to the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), according to an executive order by Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday.
The eight plots are next to each other in a block.
According to yesterday’s executive order, the eight plots each cover an area of 193 square metres.
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.
Some of the area comprising the eight plots was then converted into a temporary recreational area over a decade ago, while a temporary building was constructed on a part of the area 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.
Yesterday’s executive order noted that the eight plots are still undeveloped, and the MSAR government is now planning to earmark the plots for a “more reasonable” use.
According to the executive order, the use of the eight plots had previously been granted to the Housing Bureau as leaseholds.
According to yesterday’s executive order, which took effect yesterday, the Housing Bureau has consequently decided to relinquish the eight plots’ leaseholds.
The Macau 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.
This map drawn by the Mapping and Land Registry Bureau (DSCC) published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday shows the eight undeveloped plots (A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H) in Iao Hon district.
