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3 Other Major Work of 2018-2020

Reconsideration of Representations and Application

From time to time, the Board has faced legal challenges of JRs against its decisions on the representations
in respect of the proposed amendments of OZPs or planning applications. During the report period,
there were six JRs with the Court’s judgments handed down which required follow-up actions of the

Board to reconsider the relevant representations and the planning application.

Reconsideration of Representations

The Board gave consideration to the reviews conducted by PlanD in respect of the building height
restrictions, non-building area (NBA), setback and building gap (BG) requirements on individual zones
of four draft OZPs, namely Causeway Bay OZP No. S/H6/15, Wan Chai OZP No. S/H5/26, Mong Kok OZP
No. S/K3/28, and Ngau Tau Kok and Kowloon Bay OZP No. S/K13/26, taking into account the implications
of the Sustainable Building Design Guidelines (SBDG) on the building height profile, air ventilation
measures, visual and urban design consideration, and reconsidered the relevant representations.

For the draft Causeway Bay, Wan Chai and Mong Kok OZPs, the Board decided to relax the building
height restrictions on the relevant “C”, “R(A)”, “R(B)” and “OU” zones and revise the NBA and BG
requirements. The three draft OZPs, namely Causeway Bay OZP No. S/H6/16, Wan Chai OZP No. S/
H5/28 and Mong Kok OZP No. S/K3/31, incorporating the amendments amongst others, were exhibited
for public inspection under section 7 of the Ordinance on 26 January 2018, 4 May 2018 and 13 July
2018 respectively. The consideration of the representations and comments in respect of the proposed
amendments to the three draft OZPs was completed. The draft Causeway Bay, Mong Kok and Wan
Chai OZPs were approved by the CE in C on 8 January 2019, 8 October 2019 and 9 November 2021

and renumbered as S/H6/17, S/K3/32 and S/H5/29 respectively.

For the draft Ngau Tau Kok and Kowloon Bay OZP, the Board decided to delete BG requirement within
the “OU” annotated “Business (2)” zone while maintaining the other development restrictions for
the representation sites. The proposed amendment to the draft OZP No. S/K13/29 was published
under section 6(C)2 of the Ordinance on 18 October 2019. After giving consideration to one further
representation on 20 December 2019, the Board decided not to uphold the further representation. The
draft OZP was approved by the CE in C on 28 April 2020 and renumbered as S/K13/30.

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