South Horizons

South Horizons
Traditional Chinese海怡半島
Simplified Chinese海怡半岛
Literal meaningOcean Harmony Peninsula
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHǎi Yí Bàndǎo
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinghoi2 ji4 bun3 dou2
South Horizons Phases I and II at the western end of Ap Lei Chau, viewed from the north, across Aberdeen West Typhoon Shelter.
The former Ap Lei Chau Power Station in 1971, viewed from the north, across Aberdeen West Typhoon Shelter.
Map of South Horizons
South Horizons buildings
South Horizons Phase II (middle) and Phase I (right), with Marina Square West on the left.
Fountain Plaza. The building housing the operational headquarters of Hongkong Electric is on the right.
South Horizons Residents Club
Amphitheatre
800m long Water Promenade
West construction site of South Horizons station in May 2016. The building in the middle is Marina Square East Centre.

South Horizons (Chinese: 海怡半島) is a private housing estate located in Aberdeen at the western end of Ap Lei Chau (a.k.a. Aberdeen Island), in the Southern District of Hong Kong.[1] Developed by Secan Limited,[2] a Hutchison Whampoa associate company,[3] it consists of 34 blocks, ranging in height from 25 to 42 storeys, completed between 1993 and 1995.[4] Census data indicated that South Horizons had a population of 31,496 in 2011 and was the most populated among the private and public estates of the district.[5]

  1. ^ Chan, Chi-kau Johnnie Casire (1995). Community development and management of private sector housing estates in Hong Kong (PDF) (Master of Housing Management thesis). University of Hong Kong. pp. 113–125. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-24. Retrieved Sep 14, 2014. Note: the author of this dissertation was a member of the management team of Hutchison Whampoa Group at the time of its publication (see page 115).
  2. ^ Lands Department: List of Consents to Sell, Consents to Assign and Approvals of Deeds of Mutual Covenant issued from 1/10/1984 to 31/12/1993
  3. ^ Moir, Jane (November 28, 1998). "Secan wins in tax challenge". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  4. ^ Emporis: South Horizons[usurped]
  5. ^ 2011 Population Census: Fact Sheet for South Horizons in Southern District Council District. For the purpose of the 2011 census, each of the "Major Housing Estates", among which South Horizons was listed, so it 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."