Mr Christopher Chope OBE MP
House of Commons
Westminster
London SW1
Mans Clansman Association
4 Romilly Street
London W1
17th October 1985
Dear Mr Chope
I write,
as Chairman of the Man Clansman Association, to thank you sincerely for the opportunity you gave our organisation to explain our deep concern regarding the Hong Kong government's attitude towards the valuation of land in our home village of San Tin, which is being compulsorily purchased for motorway construction.
The Man Family, many hundreds of whom are resident in the United Kingdom, would be grateful for your support in lobbying Her Majesty's Government Minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs to raise their case with the relevant Hong Kong government department.
The case is typical of the problems affecting individual Chinese residents in the UK,
95% of whom come from the New Territories, who do not have the time, resources or expertise to leave their small business in the UK in order to travel to Hong Kong to raise their objections and present their counter proposals personally.
The Man Family and the Hong Kong government department responsible for these matters are in dispute regarding the actual value of compensation for the land being compulsorily purchased for motorway construction.
The attached documents, a set of which has also been attached for the Minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs, set out the the Man Clan's case which can
be summarised as follows:
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1.
The land concerned is Territories in Hong Kong.
located in the North West corner of the New For the last 700 years the area of land known as SAN TIN has been the ancestral home and farmlands of the Man Family.
2.
In
1977 the Hong Kong government made it clear that there were no public funds available for the development of San Tin. Instead the government actively encouraged the Man Family to develop their own Master Plan. The government strongly insisted however that any financial benefits from the development potential should be shared equally by all the land owners in
the
Man Family; the San Tin Development and Management Company Ltd formed to ensure that this equal share principle was binding.
was
3.
Since 1977 the Man Family and the Government have been discussing furthering the Develoment Plan.
and
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