1972年政府推行大型建屋計劃，將元朗市擺入市鎮擴展計劃內。因此唔少人喺元朗市中心起咗好多多層式私人大廈，所以元朗市中心嘅樓宇而家一般都比較古舊，以唐樓、單幢式住宅或只有三四幢住宅組成嘅小社區為主，更加發展成好似灣仔嘅狹窄街道。
In 1972, the Government introduced a large-scale housing project to bring Yuen Long City under the Town Extension Scheme. As a result, many people have built a lot of multi-storey private buildings in Yuen Long town centre, so the buildings in Yuen Long town centre are generally relatively old, mainly tenement buildings, single-block houses or small communities with only three or four residential buildings, and more developed into narrow streets like Wan Chai.