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List of Facilities & Venues
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Special Notice
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)reopens the following land leisure facilities on 21 April :
Outdoor Facilities:
- Sports grounds (for jogging activity, a maximum of 300 users are permitted to use the running track of each sports ground with 8 lanes 400-metres running track at the same time. The number of users for sports grounds with less than 8 lanes of running track or length of running track less than 400-metres, is set on pro-rata basis. Please refer to LCSD website https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/clpss/en/webApp/Facility/District.do?ftid=38 for the set number of users for running track of sports grounds)
- Tennis courts / Tennis practice courts
- Shek O Obstacle Golf Course
- Archery ranges
- Bowling greens
- All green pitches / courts (7-a-side / 11-a-side soccer pitches, baseball courts, rugby pitches, cricket grounds, hockey grounds, etc., including grass pitches inside sports grounds), Wo Yi Hop Road Golf Driving Range (inside the sports ground)
- Gateball courts
- All hard-surface and sand pitches / courts(5-a-side / 7-a-side soccer pitches, cricket grounds, basketball courts, volleyball courts, handball courts, netball courts, roller hockey court, etc.)
- All cycling facilities (including children’s cycling tracks/grounds, cycling grounds, cycling tracks and cycling practice grounds)
- Outdoor badminton courts and outdoor table tennis tables
- Outdoor fitness facilities (including elderly fitness equipment, elderly fitness corners, fitness stations, fitness corners, etc.), Pebble walking trails
- Amphitheatres (only for individual leisure use only), Chess tables
- Skateparks, skateboard grounds, roller skating rinks
- Model car play area, model boat pools, boating parks
- Road safety towns, children's play facilities
Indoor Facilities:
All indoor sports facilities located inside sports centres, squash centres / standalone squash courts, table tennis centre, tennis centre, badminton centres, Hong Kong Velodrome, Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, Tai Po Sports Ground, Tung Chau Street Park, Siu Lek Yuen Road Playground and Queen Elizabeth Stadium.
- Multi-purpose arenas and other sports facilities, e.g. basketball courts, volleyball courts, netball courts, handball courts, selected new sports activities at designated sports centres during non-peak hours (including dodgeball, dodgebee, kin-ball, korfball, tchoukball, pickleball and gateball)
- Badminton courts
- Squash courts
- Table tennis rooms / tables
- Bowling greens
- Golf driving ranges
- Tennis courts
- Cycling tracks (a maximum capacity of the track at the same sharing session is 85% of the original)
- Indoor jogging tracks (a maximum capacity of the jogging track at any time is 85% of the original)
- Activity rooms (including those inside multi-purpose squash courts), dance rooms
- Fitness rooms
- Billiard table/American pool tables (including those inside the multi-purpose squash courts)
- Gymnastics training hall of Shun Lee Tsuen Sports Centre
- Outdoor or indoor sport climbing wall inside sports centres
- Sanshou Training Hall of Lei Yue Mun Sports Centre
- Contact sports training room of Pei Ho Street Sports Centre
- Children's Play Room inside sports centres or indoor venues (the maximum admission capacity of the children’s play room is 85% of the original)
Other facilities / Ancillary facilities
- Study Study corners
- Spectator stands (some seats will be temporarily closed in compliance with the Prevention and Control of Disease (Requirements and Directions) (Business and Premises) Regulation (Cap. 599F)
The barbecue sites will continue to be closed until further notice. Some LCSD venues are temporarily closed for anti-epidemic purposes. For details, please refer to Annex (subject to the latest announcement in the webpage https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/early-testing.html and the webpage https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/programme (the list of Community Vaccination Centres)).
Users of all the above reopened facilities have to comply with the Prevention and Control of Disease (Prohibition on Group Gathering) Regulation (Cap. 599G) and the Prevention and Control of Disease (Requirements and Directions) (Business and Premises) Regulation (Cap. 599F) on the prohibition of group gatherings of more than the number of people as stipulated by the law as well as regulation on wearing mask. The maximum number of players and referees to be allowed in each playing field/court at any time during competition or training match should follow the rules and regulations of the respective team sports competition.
In order to comply with the requirements stipulated in the Prevention and Control of Disease (Requirements and Directions) (Business and Premises) Regulation (Cap. 599F) and relevant requirement of administrative instructions, the LCSD will ensure necessary measures to be adopted at reopened venues. Users of sports premises are required to scan the "LeaveHomeSafe" QR code before being allowed to enter for necessary contact tracing if a confirmed case is found. In accordance with the Prevention and Control of Disease (Vaccine Pass) Regulation (Cap.599L) and relevant requirement of administrative instructions, all persons entering or remaining at sports premises or other indoor venues under the management of the LCSD must comply with the requirement of Vaccine Pass. To expedite the process of admission, appeals are made to members of the public to download and install the "LeaveHomeSafe",“iAM Smart” or “eHealth” mobile app in advance and / or store the QR code of a COVID-19 vaccination record or COVID-19 vaccination medical exemption certificate in the app, or carry a paper copy of their COVID-19 vaccination record and / or exemption certificate printed with an encrypted QR code for scanning by the staff members of certain premises. Members of the public who opt for showing their COVID-19 vaccination record or Exemption Certificate printed without an encrypted QR code are reminded to arrive earlier to avoid delaying their visits as longer time is required for such registration. Details on the latest dosage schedule for the Vaccine Pass issued by the Government can be found at https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/pdf/vp_t1_ENG.pdf.
Processing and acceptance of applications for use of amphitheatres, leisure venues for non-designated use, sales activities at non-fee charging leisure venues and road safety towns, are suspended until further notice.
For refund arrangements in relation to venue closures, the hirer may submit a completed refund application form together with the original booking permit to the DLSOs or relevant leisure venues in person or by post, or make use of drop-in boxes located at the DLSOs. The refund application form can be downloaded from www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/aboutlcsd/forms/refund.html. Due to the closure of fee-charging facilities in relation to the situation of COVID-19, the number of refund cases will increase tremendously. The LCSD has adopted measures to handle these refund cases as soon as possible but a prolonged processing time for refunds is expected. Members of the public are advised to note the longer time required for refunds. The department apologises for any inconvenience caused.