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Kowloon Tsai Park

Public park in Kowloon Tsai, Hong Kong

Field	Value
name	Kowloon Tsai Park
alt_name	九龍仔公園
photo	Kowloon Tsai Park overview 2019.jpg
image_size	250
image_alt	九龍仔公園
photo_caption	Aerial overview photo (2019)
location	13 Inverness Road, Kowloon Tsai,
New Kowloon, Hong Kong
coords
area	14.99 ha
opened
operator	Leisure and Cultural Services Department
publictransit	Lok Fu station

New Kowloon, Hong Kong

The "checkerboard" on the hill above the park

Kowloon Tsai Park is a park located in the Kowloon Tsai area of New Kowloon in Hong Kong. It lies within the Kowloon City District and opened on 5 June 1964.

History

In the 1950s, the area was used as a borrow area to supply fill for the extension of the nearby Kai Tak Airport runway. The Urban Council commissioned architecture firm Leigh and Orange to draw up plans for the redevelopment of this area of "barren hills and waste lands" as a new recreational area for the citizens of Kowloon. The first phase of the new park opened in 1964.

The Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool, the first in Kowloon, was funded by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club and also opened in 1964. Originally, the pool was not open in the evening because it sat under the airport flight path, hence the Civil Aviation Department would not agree on the use of outdoor floodlighting there.

Features

The park consists of three football fields (2 artificial grass and 1 natural grass), two basketball courts, two 7-a-side football courts, one public swimming pool, two tennis courts, a Bauhinia Garden and children's playgrounds.

Kowloon Tsai Sports Ground is located within the park. It consists of an international standard football field, running tracks and a spectator stand with bathroom facilities. The grandstand seats 1,216.

The Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool was the first swimming pool in Kowloon. It features a 50-metre competition pool and smaller leisure pools. The LCSD plans to reconstruct the pool complex to provide an indoor heated pool.

The famous checkerboard for the Kai Tak runway 13 approach can be found at the top of the park. Due to this, the hill where the checkerboard was located was christened as Checkerboard Hill.

References

"Kowloon Tsai Park". Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
(7 January 1961). "Big swimming pool planned in Kowloon Tsai Park". South China Morning Post.
(21 July 1979). "Shedding light on Kowloon Tsai pool". South China Morning Post.
"Kowloon Tsai Sports Ground". Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
(April 2013}}{{Dead link). "Progress Report of the 8th Meeting of the Kowloon City District Council". Kowloon City District Office.

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