The grassroots New Macau Association (NMA) yesterday urged the government to come up with a solution to the height issue of a suspended residential building project near Guia Lighthouse, calling for the height of the unfinished high-rise to be lowered, so as to meet the area’s official height limit.
The association made the remarks yesterday at its office, where President Scott Chiang Meng Hin and Vice-Presidents Jason Chao Teng Hei and Sulu Sou Ka Hou briefed the media about their recent meeting with the director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris, Mechtild Rössler.
After the lighthouse was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005, an executive order, gazetted in 2008, restricted the height of buildings surrounding the lighthouse, to a maximum of 52.50 metres.
New Macau Association (NMA) President Scott Chiang Meng Hin (centre) speaks during yesterday’s media briefing on the association’s premises, while NMA Vice-Presidents Jason Chao Teng Hei (left) and Sulu Sou Ka Hou look on. Photo: Tony Wong
