Northern Metropolis will make Hong Kong more liveable, Paul Chan says

Residents of the Northern Metropolis, Hong Kong’s future mega township near the border with Shenzhen, can expect bigger living spaces and improved access to recreational areas, according to the city’s finance chief.Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also said the government would make the border town a place “suitable for living, working, studying and leisure”, as part of a wider effort to develop Hong Kong as a “liveable city”.In his weekly blog post on Sunday, Chan added that the Northern Metropolis was expected to “become a new engine for Hong Kong’s future economic development”.“We hope to take advantage of the Northern Metropolis development to gradually enhance the living and spatial environment for residents,” he wrote.“For residential flats built [there], the size configuration of public housing is being optimised, and the minimum size requirements for private housing units are also being raised.”Flat size configurations refer to the layout and number of rooms in a flat.