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Our intention is that the existing review and appeal procedures in the current Town Planning Ordinance should apply. We are reviewing the procedures followed by the Town Planning Board to see whether improvements are needed to make the
In the appeal process more demonstrably fair. meantime, you may wish to note that Section 17(7) of the Town Planning Ordinance already gives any person aggrieved by the decision of the Board a channel of appeal by way of petition to the Governor-in-Council;
The
Administrative town plans cannot function effectively as a basis for guiding and regulating development in the New Territories because they cannot be enforced by law. Under the Bill, the rural New Territories will benefit from statutory planning, which has proved to be effective in enabling proper development in the new towns. Administration has no intention whatsoever of freezing all development in the New Territories;
The intention of the Bill is not to ban open storage. The Administration recognises that open storage activities serve an economic need, and that it is necessary to continue to allow land to be used for this purpose. However, it is equally necessary that such activities should be planned properly so that they meet certain environmental,
To this infrastructural and planning requirements. end, a new land use zoning of "Open Storage" has been introduced in the Bill and open storage sites have been zoned on the interim Development Permission Area (IDPA) plans in suitable locations. Open storage is also a use for which planning
permission may be sought in any IDPA or Development Planning Area (DPA);
(4) The Government expects to spend $390 million over
the five-year period from 1989/90-1993/94 on village improvement schemes, new sewers and sewage treatment plants, and improvements to village access roads. This is in addition to some $1.1 billion allocated for expenditure in the same period on major flood protection and drainage projects, rural upgrading and development, and local public works and urban fringe improvements which form part of the Rural Planning and Improvement Strategy;