Sau Mau Ping Memorial Park, Memorial park in Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong.
Sau Mau Ping Memorial Park is an urban park in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong, dedicated to the memory of those killed in a landslide. It sits at the corner of Tsui Ping Road, Hiu Kwong Street, and Hiu Ming Street, with walking paths, open ground, and seating areas spread across the site.
On 30 June 1972 the Land Development Planning Committee reserved the landslide site for an open space instead of the school previously planned there. The slope was rebuilt with a gentler gradient and better drainage, and the park was completed in 1976. A 560-square-metre strip beside Kwun Tong Maryknoll College was added in the early 1980s.
The park takes its name from Sau Mau Ping, the area where the 18 June 1972 flooding and landslide killed 71 residents of the resettlement area. The site was reserved as an open space for remembrance rather than the school previously planned there. A stairway and pathway climb the rebuilt slope, linking Tsui Ping Road with Hiu Kwong Street and a rest garden.
The memorial occupies a hillside between Tsui Ping Road, Hiu Kwong Street and Hiu Ming Street, so the site is not level: a stairway and pathway climb the rebuilt slope and link up with Hiu Kwong Street and a rest garden above. The slope was regraded to a gentler gradient with improved drainage, and a 560-square-metre strip beside Kwun Tong Maryknoll College was added in the early 1980s.
The site was first earmarked for a school, but on 30 June 1972 the Land Development Planning Committee reserved it for an open space instead. The rebuilt slope was given a gentler gradient and better drainage, and the planned badminton and basketball courts were dropped because the flatter slope took up more room.
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