Developer explains Alto de Coloane residence project timeline

The developer of the controversial residential project in Estrada do Campo in Coloane, Win Loyal Development Ltd., has established a web page explaining the development timeline of the project, one mired in criticism that it could damage the natural environment of Coloane, local media reports.
The controversy of the project lies in the reason why the government would have given the greenlight to the developer to build the 100-metre high project in 2011 despite its location in Coloane – where height restrictions are applied to most of the architectural projects to not exceed a 90-metre threshold.
But according to the recently established web page of the company, it firstly applied to local authorities to build the project to a height of 198 metres in 2010, in consideration of ‘the lack of land resources in Macau so that urban architecture should be developed vertically.’
‘From the perspective of environmental protection, [the plan] can reduce the mountain area needed to be flattened,’ it noted.
Local businessman Sio Tak Hong is one of the developers of the project.
Meanwhile, the web page also indicated that the company had acquired the privatelyowned land parcel for residential use in a public auction in Hong Kong in 2004 via real estate service firm Jones Lang Lasalle.
The land parcel occupies 53,866 square metres. But the overall area has been decreased to 48,868 square metres following the government’s requirement of the developer to allocate some 4,997 square metres for the city’s public assets.
On the other hand, the developer claimed that it had given up a 28-storey building for development on the project in 2014 in order to fulfill the government’s requirements after an abandoned blockhouse occupying 11 square metres was found in the plot.
The web page, www.e-campo.net, also includes a video made by the developer on the timeline for the project in the Cantonese dialect.