Hong Kong must scrap housing plan and preserve golf course

The hotly contested court battle over government plans to build 12,000 public flats on Hong Kong’s oldest golf course has played its final round.

The government decided not to appeal against a ruling that held its approval of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on the project to be unlawful. This is better than pursuing a further attempt to persuade the courts to uphold a fatally flawed process. Now, a…