Owner of luxury Hong Kong home fined HK$110,000 over illegal structures, pool
Sunset Boulevard Company, which owns House No 76 at Redhill Peninsula in Tai Tam, lists Hong Kong resident Marc Robert Compagnon as its director
The owner of a luxury home at a seaside estate in Hong Kong has been fined HK$110,000 (US$14,039) for building illegal structures and a swimming pool following a government crackdown triggered by a record-breaking rainstorm and an investigation by the South China Morning Post.
Sunset Boulevard Company, which owns House No 76 at Redhill Peninsula, the luxury low-rise estate in Tai Tam, was sentenced at Eastern Court on Thursday.
The private firm, founded in 1995, lists Hong Kong resident Marc Robert Compagnon as its director, according to Companies Registry records.
Principal Magistrate David Cheung Chi-wai heard that the unauthorised additions on the second and fourth floors and in the garden, as well as the pool, had been in place since 2006.
The defence counsel noted the company’s directors lived there and argued in mitigation that the defendant had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
The court heard that the homeowner had already applied to the Buildings Department to remove the illegal structures, with work under way.
Cheung accepted that the company had “made an effort” to make amends.