Tuen Mun New Town

Tuen Mun New Town 屯門新市鎮
Skyline of Tuen Mun City viewed from the top of Castle Peak
Nickname(s): Castle Peak
SAR	Hong Kong
District	Tuen Mun District
Government
• Type	District Council
• Chaiman	Lau Wong-fat, GBM, GBS, JP
Area
• City	19 km² (7 sq mi)
Population (2012)
• City	486,000
• Density	26,000/km² (66,000/sq mi)
• Urban	486,000
Time zone	Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)
Website	www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/tm/tc
Mean solar time UTC+08

View of Tuen Mun New Town and Kau Keng Shan from Castle Peak.

Tuen Mun Town center

Tuen Mun New Town (Chinese: 屯門新市鎮) is a new town developed by Hong Kong Government in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong in the 1970s. At the time of planning in 1965, the satellite town, as new towns were then known, was named Castle Peak.

The development model is similar to Sha Tin New Town, constructed around a town centre (Tuen Mun Town Centre).

However, jobs and public facilities in the town are inadequate, just as in Tin Shui Wai New Town, certain social problems like low income, juvenile problems, drug abuse, controversies in use of public places, such as noise problems due to playing musical instruments in Tuen Mun Town Park.

New towns of Hong Kong

Phase-I	Tsuen Wan (Tsuen Wan Town and Kwai Chung Town) Sha Tin Tuen Mun

Phase-II	Tai Po Town Fanling-Sheung Shui (Fanling Town and Sheung Shui Town) Yuen Long Town Tsing Yi Town (extension of Tsuen Wan New Town)

Phase-III	Tseung Kwan O Tin Shui Wai Ma On Shan (extension of Sha Tin New Town)

Phase-IV	North Lantau (Tung Chung and Tai Ho)

Under planning	Hung Shui Kiu Kwu Tung North Fanling Ping Che-Ta Kwu Ling

Coordinates: 22°23′35″N 113°58′39″E / 22.393°N 113.9775°E / 22.393; 113.9775

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