Page 4 - Town Planning Board Report 2012-2014

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Chairman’s Foreword
Chairman’s Foreword
The work of the Town Planning Board (the Board) is
as challenging as ever. Diverse interests of different
stakeholders are involved. The Board has to strike a
balance among the different interests of land owners,
local residents, green groups and other concern groups,
as well as those of the wider community in its work under
the statutory town planning framework provided for in the
Town Planning Ordinance. With heightened awareness
of members of the public of their right to participate in
the planning process and the increasingly polarised
views of the interested parties, it is becoming more and
more challenging for the Board to find a right balance that The Board had continued its effort in incorporating
would serve the best interest of Hong Kong.
To increase land supply to meet the community’s demand
for housing, the Board had prepared new Outline Zoning
Plans (OZPs) to cover the Fanling North and Kwu Tung
North New Development Areas during the period covered
by this report. It had proposed amendments to a number
of existing OZPs to rezone for residential use sites both
in the urban and rural areas identified as suitable for the
purpose. It had also proposed other amendments and
handled applications for planning permission that aimed
at optimising the use of the land concerned. Members
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of the Board fully understood that all these would have
an impact on the local community, and agreed that the
issues over traffic, noise, air, visual impact, etc. raised had
to be dealt with. In considering the recommendations
that should be made to the Chief Executive in Council
and making decision on the planning applications, they
had taken all these and other relevant considerations into
full account, and made sure that the valid concerns were
addressed satisfactorily and that the adverse impacts
were suitably mitigated.
country park ‘enclaves’ into statutory plans for better land
use control. The objective was to protect the countryside
from haphazard and uncontrolled developments, while
duly taking care of the housing needs of the villagers
concerned in an objective manner. During the period
covered by this report, 10 Development Permission Area
(DPA) Plans were prepared to cover 13 country park
enclaves, and 11 DPA Plans were replaced by OZPs.
The Board also oversaw the preparation of the West
Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) Development Plan,
which laid down the broad development framework for
the preparation of the Outline Development Plan for the
WKCD area.