plan for the Central City Areas of Victoria and the Outline Plan of Sha Tin and district both of which approached completion at the end of the year. The Board sought and received much useful advice in respect of the Central Areas of Victoria from interested organizations and from utility companies. During the year the Board received instructions to prepare plans for the Tsim Sha Tsui District of Kowloon and the new industrial township of Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung/Tsing Yi; a scheme for the latter area was provisionally agreed by the Board at the end of the year.
Departmental Plans
139. Departmental plans embrace a much wider section of the Colony than those prepared in accordance with the Town Planning Ordinance and the coverage was considerably extended. A complete list of the main planning schemes dealt with during the year is given on pages 34, 35 and 36.
140. A number of new outline development plans for the north side of the Island from Kennedy Town on the west to Wan Chai on the east were prepared and circulated, while on the south the outline plan of Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau, including extensive new reclamation and sea protection works, formed the subject of discussion with Kaifong representatives and Government departments. In addition several new layout plans prepared for various parts of the Island received approval which permitted the sale and development of land to proceed.
141. In Kowloon and New Kowloon the approval of the statutory plan for Districts 8 and 11 enabled detailed layouts to be prepared for individual sections and in particular for the industrial and commercial areas of San Po Kong (Airport Released Land). Demand for land in this area was such that, with layout plans still in draft form, a sales programme was drawn up and sales took place as soon as the layouts were approved. Extension of Kwun Tong New Town continued and detailed layouts of the Commercial Centre and of Housing Zone III were approved; the former was accompanied by a model and provides three-dimensional control of development. This centre is designed to form the nucleus of a new town with a population of some 300,000 people.
New Territories
142. Much planning effort continued to be directed towards the opening up of the New Territories. Apart from the work done for the
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