Ministry cancels approval for Goyang Tanhyeon integrated public rental housing project

The 국토교통부 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) has cancelled its approval of the public rental housing construction plan for the 고양탄현 A-1BL block, a project to be carried out by the 한국토지주택공사 (Korea Land and Housing Corporation, LH). The decision is set out in 국토교통부고시 제2026-616호, published in 관보 제21357호 on 9 November 2026, and is grounded on Article 55 of the 공공주택 특별법 (Special Act on Public Housing). The cancellation formally withdraws an approval granted less than two years earlier.

The notice, signed by the 국토교통부장관 and carried in the 고시 (notices) section of the gazette at page 30, states that the project had been approved by 국토교통부 고시 제2024-910호 of 30 December 2024. The new instrument declares that approval cancelled and publishes the terms of the withdrawal, the identity of the developer and the location of the site.

What the notice cancels

The gazette entry lists the elements of the cancelled project:

• Project name: 고양탄현 A-1BL 공공주택건설사업(통합공공임대), a public housing construction project of the integrated public rental type.
• Developer: 한국토지주택공사, represented by its president, 이한준.
• Developer’s address: 19, Chungui-ro, Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do (Chungmugong-dong).
• Project area: the A-1BL block inside the public housing district in the Tanhyeon-dong area, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
• Nature of the measure: cancellation of the approval of the public housing construction project plan.

No unit count, land area, construction schedule or budget figure appears in the published notice.

The stated grounds

The ministry attributes the withdrawal to a change of circumstances under Article 55(1)4 of the 공공주택 특별법, which it says makes continued execution of the housing construction project impossible. The specific change is the housing type: the block moves from a single integrated public rental format (통합공공임대) to a combined format of integrated public rental plus public rental for sale-to-owners conversion (통합공공임대+분양전환공공임대).

In practice this means the A-1BL site is no longer approved as an all-rental scheme. Because the housing type is the core variable of the cancelled approval, the ministry treats the original authorisation as unable to support the project as approved in December 2024, and cancels it rather than amending it.

Why the file was reopened

The instrument is a standard revocation notice rather than a new approval: it identifies the earlier authorisation, the legal ground for withdrawing it and the resulting change in tenure mix, but does not publish the revised project plan. Any new construction plan for the same block would have to be approved separately and published in the gazette in its own right.

The notice therefore closes the file opened by 국토교통부 고시 제2024-910호 without disclosing the revised scheme’s details, leaving the practical consequences for the site to be determined by a future instrument.

The A-1BL block in Tanhyeon-dong sits in a Goyang public housing district in the Seoul metropolitan area, where rental supply volumes are closely watched. Cancelling an all-rental approval in favour of a mixed tenure — part of it convertible to home ownership — changes the composition of what is delivered on the site, and it comes at a moment when metropolitan rental pipelines are the yardstick against which national supply targets are measured. Because the notice publishes no new timetable or unit figures, residents and applicants waiting on the Tanhyeon block have no confirmed schedule in this instrument; they will need to follow the successor approval, which the gazette has not yet carried.

Source: 관보 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Korea), 제21357호, 9 November 2026, 고시 (notices), p. 30 (official reference: 국토교통부고시 제2026-616호).