Twenty households got land resumption notices this week for plots inside the Northern Metropolis footprint; the Lands Department has not published the village names. The twenty sit in farm-registered classification, the category that takes the longest to clear and offers the narrowest room to argue. In the same week, the Development Bureau confirmed a profits-tax concession for corporate treasury hubs at 8.25% for qualifying income, designed to draw multinationals into the same district; Nikkei Asia reported AstraZeneca is in active discussion with the government about Northern Metropolis space. The twenty households are not in those discussions.

Farm-plot compensation rates under the Lands Resumption Ordinance were last revised in 2019. No adjustment accompanied this week's corporate package. A Yuen Long villager with a farm classification works from the same rate card in 2026 as in 2019; a multinational running treasury income from the same new district is looking at a concession drafted this month. The Lands Department told SCMP the clearances are proceeding on schedule; no site-by-site compensation schedule has been published for the twenty households.