Embattled Tsoi Yuen villagers believe they are deprived of road access connecting their new village site and a main road because they are in the way of a development project.
Ko Chun-heung, the head of the villagers' concern group, indicated this after the latest round of talks with executive councillor and Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat collapsed yesterday.
Lau made a revised offer to the villagers during a one-hour meeting. He wants them to sell 12,000 square feet of land near the entrance to the new village and pay HK$300,000 in exchange for road access.
The villagers were previously asked to pay either HK$5 million or 12,000 sqft of land plus HK$500,000.
The land accounts for 8.3 per cent of the villagers' new home and is next to a site earmarked for small houses and a car park.
Forty-seven Tsoi Yuen families are locked in a struggle between MTR bulldozers at their old village in Pat Heung and hostile indigenous villagers banning them from using an existing road to the site of their new village.
