[4] In November 1981, the Tuen Mun New Town Development Office commissioned a private consultant, EBC Hongkong, to lay out the park.

With its annual patronage of 400,000 (including 75,000 group visitors), the Reptile House is becoming one of the major vantage points in the park.

Species include: bearded dragon, Cuban anole, boa constrictor, veiled chameleon, western painted turtle, Tokay gecko, leopard gecko, star tortoise, spurred tortoise, iguana, Thai water dragon, ball python, blue-tongued skink, spectacled caiman.

[11] LCSD subsequently established a performance stage and two "self-entertainment zones" farther away from residential blocks in an effort to mitigate the problem.

Many of the singers are now dai ma [zh] (大媽), scantily clad "dancing aunties" who sing in Mandarin Chinese using amplifiers.

They also called for the "self-entertainment zones" to be scrapped, alleging that they attracted noisy performers to the park from other districts of Hong Kong.

[13][14] On 9 July 2019, the Tuen Mun District Council unanimously passed a motion calling to discontinue the "self-entertainment zones" and to step up law enforcement at the park.

The police cut the event short and undertook a "dispersal operation", firing tear gas and sponge grenade rounds at protesters, some of whom threw Molotov cocktails.

Protests spread to the nearby town of Yuen Long that evening, marking the two-month anniversary of the July attacks that took place there.