Heritage advocates have slammed the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) for not fully assessing the remains of 137-year-old buildings in Central before putting forward a proposal to dismantle and then reassemble them into a wall. The remains, located on Cochrane Street next to the Mid-Levels escalator, are believed to belong to ten tenement buildings or tong lau built between 1879 and 1880. The URA’s […]
