In 2016, a tenant at Shing Chuen House discovered that the floor slab under his flat's toilet was filled with powdery gravel.

In order to facilitate pedestrian movement around the steeply sloping site, the estate design includes six lift towers, nine footbridges, and ten sets of escalators.

The longest footbridge is located at the main entrance of the estate at Shui Chuen Au Street.

With a length of 70 metres, it is the longest footbridge in any Hong Kong public housing estate.

Most of the estate is now located in the newly created Shui Chuen O constituency, which is represented by Lo Tak-ming.