Trackside Villas - Hong Kong Housing Society

The application period is from 14 February 2023 to 27 February 2023 (application closed).

The eligibility criterion of this Scheme are as follows:

1. Applicants must be from 3-6 person families whose applications for Public Rental Housing (hereinafter referred to "PRH") of Hong Kong Housing Autiority (hereinafter referred to "HA") have been registered for 3 years or above (i.e. the registration date is on or before 28 February 2020); and
2. The application for PRH of HA must remain valid at any time from the registration date for application of HA’s PRH up to the commencement of the Sub-licence issued under the Scheme (“SL”) and during the subsistence of the SL; and   
3. The information of the applicant and his/her family member(s) must be the same as that of the application for PRH of HA; and
4. The applicant and his/her family member(s) must comply with the existing policies and criteria for applying PRH of HA (including but not limited to number of family members, income and asset limit), and must not own directly or indirectly in any manner any domestic property in Hong Kong (including subsidised sale flats) at any time from the date of application for HA’s PRH up to the commencement of the SL and during the subsistence of the SL; and
5. Tenants/licensees of PRH, Transitional Rental Housing, Monthly/Occupation Licence of HS or HA and their spouses, are not eligible to apply; and
6. Licensees occupying at Trackside Villas under the Community Housing Movement (hereinafter referred to as “CHM”) of Hong Kong Council of Social Services (hereinafter referred to as “HKCSS”) and their spouses, are not eligible to apply.

The application fee is free of charge.

Online application closed on 27 February 2023 5:30 p.m..

During the period from 14 February 2023 to 27 February 2023, those who are interested to apply can obtain the Application Form and Application Guide during the application period at the following venues or can be downloaded from the designated website.

1. This website ; or
2. Housing Society's Applications Section (G/F, Dragon Centre, 23 Wun Sha Street, Tai Hang, Hong Kong) ; or
3. Housing Society's Estate Management Offices (Note 1) ; or
4. Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of the Home Affairs Department (Note 2)

Note 1: Please visit https://www.hkhs.com/en/contact-us for the office hours of Housing Society's Estate Management Offices.
Note 2: Please visit https://www.had.gov.hk/en/public_services/public_enquiry_services/ctec.htm for the office hours of Home Affairs Enquiry Centres.

As the Scheme is aimed at providing transitional rental housing to the applicants for PRH of the HA, if the HA’s PRH application is still valid, such application will not be affected by application under the Scheme, and would be processed in accordance with HA’s prevailing PRH application policy and procedures.

HKHS will invite applicants to attend the vetting procedures according to the number of vacant flats under the Scheme.

After conducting the vetting procedures, eligible applicants will be invited and will be arranged to take part in the flat allocation procedures according to their priority number and family size and will be arranged to sign the Sub-Licence at specified time.

Whether the invited applicants would have the opportunity of being allocated a flat depends on the flats available for allocation, their priority number and family size.

Yes, you can submit your application. However, please note that successful applicants with flats allocated under the Scheme who have previously applied Yue Kwong Cheun (YKC) and/or Transitional Rental Housing Scheme – Kwun Tong Garden Estate (KTGE) and/or Transitional Rental Housing Scheme – Trackside Villas (TV) and/or Transitional Rental Housing Scheme – Chun Seen Mei Chuen (CSMC) ) and/or Transitional Rental Housing Scheme – Ming Wah Dai Ha (MWDH), their applications for YKC and/or KTGE and/or TV and/or CSMC and/or MWDH, will be cancelled. Application fee for YKC and/or KTGE and/or TV and/or CSMC and/or MWDH will be non-refundable and non-transferrable.

About 30 vacant flats are open for application as at 1 January 2023.

(Note: After rent review, the monthly sub-licence fee had increased by 2%, effective from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2024. Yet, HKHS has decided to provide a special relief measure for twelve months by waiving the extra monthly sub-licence fee payable by the sub-licencees from 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023.)

Trackside Villas is located at No. 4105 Tai Po Road, Tai Po Kau, New Territories. For location map, please click here.

Bus stops and mini-bus stops are located near Trackside Villas with various bus and minibus routes to Tai Po town centre and other districts.

MTRCL is now providing shuttle bus service plying between Trackside Villas and Tai Po Market MTR Station to her existing Trackside Villas licensees. On condition that MTRCL’s existing licensees have the priority to use aforesaid service, MTRCL might consider extending such service to all Sub-licensees and/or their family member(s). MTRCL reserves the right to terminate the shuttle bus service without any compensation. Whereas, HKHS would not provide any shuttle bus service to Sub-licensees and/or their family member(s).

HKHS will sign a Sub-licence agreement with those eligible applicants who have been allocated a transitional housing flat.

• If during the period of occupancy, the Sub-licensee is being allocated with another PRH flats through other ways including but not limited to allocation via HA’s PRH application, the Sub-licensee should immediately give written notice to HKHS, HKHS will terminate the SL within 2 months from the commencement of tenancy agreement of the PRH , Sub-licensee shall deliver up vacant possession of the transitional housing flat to HKHS.
• If the Sub-licensee successfully purchases in any manner directly or indirectly any domestic property in Hong Kong (including Subsidised Sale Flats) during the stay at Trackside Villas, the Sub-licensee must immediately give written notice to HKHS,  HKHS will terminate the SL within 2 months upon receiving the written notice, the Sub-licensee shall deliver up vacant possession of the transitional rental housing flat to HKHS.
• The Sub-licensee may also, based on his/her personal circumstances, give no less than 1 month’s written notice to HKHS to terminate the above SL and deliver up vacant possession of the transitional housing flat to HKHS.

HKHS has entered into a licence agreement with MTRCL for the use of Trackside Villas as transitional housing until 31 July 2025.

This license agreement period is currently under review by HKHS and MTRCL and may be extended after 31 July 2025. Details would be announced in due course.