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or on a wider scale when, say, ten or more such operations
line up along a village access road, is often traumatic and
is of a kind, for which any responsible Government must try
to afford some rational means of control. The Town Planning
(Amendment) Bill 1990 is about just that.
Government is already carrying out an overall
revision of the Town Planning Ordinance and a consultation
document will be published early in 1991 for public comment.
Because it is a very complex area, we do not expect the
revised Ordinance to be enacted before 1992. The provisions
of the Town Planning (Amendment) Bill 1990 will of course be
subsumed in or replaced by the revised Ordinance.
7.
The (Amendment) Bill was gazetted at the end of
July and at the same time a consultative document was
published to guide the public.
support
while to attempt to answer some of the main questions
which have been raised about it.
8.
The first is - Given that Government was in any
case revising the whole Ordinance, why could not it wait for
enactment of the revised Ordinance before imposing control
in the New Territories rural areas? The answer is simple.