Muk Lun Street Playground, Public playground in Wong Tai Sin District, Hong Kong.
Muk Lun Street Playground is a Leisure and Cultural Services Department recreation ground at 7 Muk Lun Street in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, next to the Lutheran Church and Chong Shan. It holds two basketball courts, one football pitch, toilets with changing rooms and floodlighting. Old trees grow on the site, including a Chinese banyan on the register of old trees.
The site was part of the Kam Lok New Village and Sei Hei New Village squatter settlements. After a major fire on 9 June 1984, residents were relocated to temporary housing in the New Territories and to Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po. The villages were fully cleared in the early 1990s, and the land became a recreational ground managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
The site was part of the Kam Lok and Sei Hei新村 squatter villages until a fire on 9 June 1984; residents were resettled to temporary housing in the New Territories and Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po, and the area was fully cleared in the early 1990s. The name Muk Lun Street (睦鄰, "neighbourly harmony") is echoed in the site's use as a shared open space next to Chuk Yuen and the Lutheran Church.
The playground sits at 7 Muk Lun Street, next to Grand Central and the Lutheran Church of the Saviour, under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Two basketball courts, a football pitch, toilets with changing rooms and floodlights serve the site; the courts are lit for evening play.
The site was part of the Kam Lok and Sei Hei新村 squatter villages until a fire on 9 June 1984; residents were rehoused in temporary housing in the New Territories and Kwong Fuk Estate in Tai Po, and clearance was completed in the early 1990s. In 2012 the LCSD enlarged the planter of a Chinese banyan listed on the Old and Valuable Trees Register so it could keep growing.
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