LH Completes Appointment of Experts to Develop 3rd Phase New Towns

Perspective view of Bucheon Daejang, 3rd New Town (Provided by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

[Asia Economy Reporter Chunhee Lee] Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on the 25th that it has appointed 22 master planners for the Bucheon Daejang and Goyang Changneung districts of the 3rd phase new towns. Earlier, the appointment of master planners for other 3rd phase new towns, Namyangju Wangsuk, Incheon Gyeyang, and Hanam Gyosan districts, was completed in April.

The appointment of master planners is a system operated to receive expert advice in all areas before the establishment of district unit plans for new towns. LH has nearly doubled the number of master planners from about 4-5 per district to actively reflect social demands such as strengthening urban self-sufficiency functions in district plans and to develop the 3rd phase new towns as future city models.

For the Bucheon Daejang district, 11 master planners were appointed in 11 fields including urban planning, transportation, industry, landscaping, business planning, and urban design, with Professor Naejeon Lee of Yonsei University as the chairman. For the Goyang Changneung district, 11 master planners were appointed in 10 fields with Professor Hyunsoo Kim of Dankook University as the chairman.

In particular, in the urban design field, Park Sangseop, Vice President of D.A. Group Engineering Comprehensive Architecture Office (Bucheon Daejang), and Kim Taeman, CEO of Haean Architecture (Goyang Changneung), who were selected as the best works in the international competition for 'Basic Urban Concept and Three-dimensional Urban Space Planning' held last month, will directly participate as master planners to create urban and architectural space plans reflecting the characteristics of each district.

Perspective view of the 3rd New Town Goyang Changneung District (Provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

LH held kick-off meetings along with the appointment of master planners for the Goyang Changneung and Bucheon Daejang districts on the 16th and 23rd, respectively. The meetings involved exchanging opinions on district issues, plans reviewed so far, and winning proposals, as well as discussing future urban planning establishment methods.

Jung Woonsup, Head of LH New Town Project Division, stated, “We will actively collect opinions from experts representing various sectors to establish world-class urban development plans and promote the projects swiftly to ensure that policy goals such as the implementation of pre-sale in 2021 are achieved without setbacks.”

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