Found a Abandon Estate today

great! very crisp! do you have a story behind this abandoned place?

slimharry Posted at 2018-2-2 05:43
great! very crisp! do you have a story behind this abandoned place?

I think someone built these houses but fail to sell them.

Awesome shots

Woe Posted at 2018-2-2 05:46
Awesome shots

thanks man

Beautiful shots! abandoned estates normally have behind sad stories , but I love how looks in the photos.

Dramatic. This looks like the perfect place to explore a bit closer with the drone. It could be the movie set for an apocalypse movie.

nice pic  

great location for photography, even without a drone I guess.

What a tragic waste of resources and investment.  Well documented by your photography. Thanks for the share.

Must be Chernobyl.

Great work! Ghost town by the look of it!

Hi Ste Wong,

This is not an abandoned estate. And there was no sad story behind. Did you recognise the black colour Land Cruser in the photo, the well kept yellow guard booth and blue hoarding boards?

Each of these 2 or 3 storeys houses is actually sitting on strong foundation piles of more than 100 metres deep! These houses are the famous "Ghost Houses" that were built by one of the largest Real Estate Developers in HK, the New World Development Ltd.

According to media - back in the 1990s, NWD bought this piece of village land inexpensively and applied for Planning Permission for building these houses within the then extant land use zoning of Green Belt. The Town Planning Board approved this with time limit beyond which the Planning Permission would expired. As time went by, NWD noticed that the Government was exploring to rezone all the areas into residential district, which would allow the building of multi-storeys high rise apartments.

In trying to take advantage of future prospects, and in order to secure NWD's future claiming of being the owner of houses thereby establishing the rights to re-develop in the future into high-rise buildings for sell in the future, NWD drove in the deep foundation piles and built those houses, discharging the Planning Permission. Those houses were never planned to be sold but were left as-is for the time being, waiting for the Government's rezoning.  These houses were designed to be torn down quickly and rebuilt into high-rise apartments without the need of driving in foundation piles again.

These were real business of the Tycoon and it took decades for realising the huge profits.

All we see now are in fact an interim stage of NWD's business.

Henry

Well... kind of spooky ;)

Very nice dude!

Very nice dude!

Nice, love the urban explorer stuff.

m1shootr Posted at 2018-2-2 07:41
Must be Chernobyl.

My first thought as well.

Very nice! I'd love to find abandoned buildings to grab shots of. Love it!

Henry M.Y. Posted at 2018-2-2 08:11
Hi Ste Wong,

This is not an abandoned estate. And there was no sad story behind. Did you recognise the black colour Land Cruser in the photo, the well kept yellow guard booth and blue hoarding boards?

Wow, that's a new one!

Interesting good work

Nice work! I love old urban explorer stuff.

Very nice pictures!

drn3px69 Posted at 2018-2-2 05:52
Beautiful shots! abandoned estates normally have behind sad stories , but I love how looks in the photos.

Thanks man

Kevin_d Posted at 2018-2-2 05:58
Dramatic. This looks like the perfect place to explore a bit closer with the drone. It could be the movie set for an apocalypse movie.

It would be, too bad that the estate is fenced or else I would go inside myself

mickongen Posted at 2018-2-2 06:21
nice pic

Thanks man

rantanlan Posted at 2018-2-2 06:29
great location for photography, even without a drone I guess.

Yup yup, too bad it was fenced or else I would go in with a camera

Blériot53 Posted at 2018-2-2 07:12
What a tragic waste of resources and investment.  Well documented by your photography. Thanks for the share.

My pleasure, glad that you like the photos

m1shootr Posted at 2018-2-2 07:41
Must be Chernobyl.

It just left behind for business reasons

A CW Posted at 2018-2-2 08:10
Great work! Ghost town by the look of it!

Yeah..... looks haunted.

Henry M.Y. Posted at 2018-2-2 08:11
Hi Ste Wong,

This is not an abandoned estate. And there was no sad story behind. Did you recognise the black colour Land Cruser in the photo, the well kept yellow guard booth and blue hoarding boards?

Thanks so much for the information

GoldenSun Posted at 2018-2-2 08:20
Well... kind of spooky ;)

Looks haunted

dronist Posted at 2018-2-2 08:46
Very nice dude!

Thanks man

dronist Posted at 2018-2-2 08:48
Very nice dude!

Thanks again.

Welsh Mavic Posted at 2018-2-2 08:56
Nice, love the urban explorer stuff.

me too..... esp when these buildings are so close to build up areas

Macdugel Posted at 2018-2-2 08:58
Very nice! I'd love to find abandoned buildings to grab shots of. Love it!

Glad that you like it

Ex Machina Posted at 2018-2-2 09:53
Wow, that's a new one!

Very informative

DEUCEDOG Posted at 2018-2-2 12:03
Interesting good work

Thanks man

FatherXmas Posted at 2018-2-2 12:45
Nice work! I love old urban explorer stuff.

thanks man

Montfrooij Posted at 2018-2-2 14:27
Very nice pictures!

thanks man