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36 Town Planning Board Report 2015 - 2017 Part 3 Other Major Work of 2015-2017

Amendments to Master Schedule of
Notes to Statutory Plans (MSN),
Definition of Terms used in Statutory Plans (DoT)
and Broad Use Terms (BUT)

On 16 June 2017, the Board agreed and promulgated the revised MSN, DoT and
BUT, which included (i) incorporation of ‘Arts Studio (excluding those involving
direct provision of services or goods)’ in the MSN as an always permitted use
in the “Industrial” zone, and Schedule II of the “OU” annotated “Business” and
“Residential (Group E)” zones; (ii) revision to the DoT and BUT of ‘Public Utility
Installation’ (‘PUI’) and DoT of ‘Sewage Treatment/Screening Plant’ to include
small-scale sewage treatment/screening plants provided by the Government with a
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treatment capacity of less than 5 000 m per day as ‘PUI’; (iii) addition of a new term,
‘Technology-based Crop and Aquaculture Production (excluding those involving
direct provision of customer services or goods)’ which can be regarded as ‘Non-
polluting Industrial Use’, to the DoT to allow for emerging uses such as hydroponics
and aquaculture in industrial and industrial-office buildings; (iv) revision to the
BUT of ‘Government Use’ and ‘Office’ so that government offices in commercial
buildings would be considered as ‘Office’; and (v) other minor/technical
amendments, including that related to the DoT of ‘Cooked Food Centre’.

Electronic Planning Application Submission
System (EPASS)

To allow for electronic submission of planning
applications and review, the EPASS was set up and rolled
out on 18 December 2015. It provides an additional channel
for the public to submit applications for amendment of plan
under section 12A, planning permission under section
16, amendment to permission under section 16A as well
as review under section 17 of the Ordinance in electronic
format. To facilitate the implementation of EPASS, a
new set of guidance notes providing information on the
requirements and procedures for making electronic
submission (e-submission), and new electronic application
forms (e-forms), which were similar to the set of application
forms for paper-based submission, have been prepared
and endorsed by the Board for use. The guidance notes
and e-forms are available on the Board’s website.