Park Island

Housing estate on Ma Wan, Hong Kong

Park Island

Traditional Chinese

珀麗灣

Simplified Chinese

珀丽湾

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Pò Lì Wān
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Paak3 lai6 waan1

Park Island is a private housing estate located at Ma Wan, an island in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was mainly developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties as part of the Ma Wan Development joint venture project^[1] and completed from 2002 to 2006 in six phases. There are around 10,000 to 15,000 residents.

Phases

Phase 1 comprises 2,569 units completed in August 2002. Sales started in August 2002.^[2]
Phase 3 comprises 1,446 units completed during the second half of 2004. Sales started in June 2004.^[3]
Phases 5 and 6 contain nine blocks of low-to-medium-rise apartment blocks.^[4] Sale for Phase 5 started in August 2006.^[5]

Education

Ma Wan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 62,^[6] which includes multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School (海壩街官立小學) and Tsuen Wan Government Primary School (荃灣官立小學).^[7]

Transport

Similar to the Lantau Island private housing estate Discovery Bay, Park Island has its own shuttle bus and ferry routes operated by Park Island Transport Company Limited to Tsuen Wan, Tsing Yi, Kwai Fong, Hong Kong International Airport, and Central.^[8]

Bus routes

NR330: Park Island ←→ Tsing Yi station
NR331: Ma Wan (Pak Yan Road) ←→ Tsuen Wan station
NR331S: Ma Wan (Pak Yan Road) ←→ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower) Bus Terminus
NR332: Park Island ←→ Kwai Fong Metroplaza
NR334: Park Island ←→ Hong Kong International Airport (Passenger Terminal)
230R: Ma Wan (Pak Yan Road) ←→ Kowloon Station Only available on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays

Ferry routes

Park Island ←→ Central Piers (Pier 2)
Park Island ←→ Tsuen Wan Pier (near West Rail Tsuen Wan West station).

Gallery

Bus stop
Shuttle bus
Shell plaza
Ferry pier to Central
Ferry Service
Aerial photo of Ma Wan the high rises are the Park Island

References

^ AsiaConstruct Team, "An Annual Report of the Construction Industry of China Hong Kong 2002–2003" Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 8–9 December 2003, p.15
^ Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited Annual Report 2001/2002 Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, p.34
^ Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited Annual Report 2003/04, p.28
^ Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited Annual Report 2004/2005, p.32
^ Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited Annual Report 2005/2006 Archived 31 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, p.26
^ "POA2023 Primary School Lists by School Net for Discretionary Places Admission Stage". Education Bureau. Archived from the original on 4 December 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
^ "POA School Net 62" (PDF). Education Bureau. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
^ Bus and ferry services Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine