FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990
10
PUBLICATION OF INTERIM DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION AREA PLANS
THE DIRECTOR
GAZETTING OF TWO
*
OF PLANNING
THE
IN
ANNOUNCED (FRIDAY) TODAY
PERMISSION AREA (IDPA) MORE INTERIM DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR NGAU TAM MEI AND THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK LAI AREAS NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES.
GAZETTED
ON
SINCE THE TOWN PLANNING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990 WAS
SO FAR BEEN PUBLISHED JULY 27, 1990, A TOTAL OF 17 IDPA PLANS HAVE COVERING A TOTAL AREA OF ABOUT 8,550 HECTARES.
BY HILLS
NEW IN
THE
TERRITORIES,
EASTERN
IS AND
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT SAID THAT NGAU TAM MEI. LOCATED
THE
PART OF NORTHWEST IN
NORTHERN
SHIELDED ESSENTIALLY A LARGE VALLEY SOUTHERN BOUNDARIES.
IS "ONE OF THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF DESIGNATING THE AREA AS IDPA
PREVENT FURTHER TO SET OUT A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT CONTROL TO
UNREGULATED DEGRADATION OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE
HE SAID. OPEN STORAGE AND INDUSTRIAL USES,
AREA OF ABOUT 901 HECTARES THE NGAU TAM MEI IDPA COVERS AN
176 HECTARES OF WHILE THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK NAI IDPA COVERS LAND.
IN THE
THE
NAI IDPA IS SITUATED THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK WESTERN PART OF NORTHWEST PART OF NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES ALONG COAST OF OUTER DEEP BAY.
IMPROPER
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO PREVENT
OF OPEN STORAGE FILLING ACTIVITIES, AND UNCONTROLLABLE PROLIFERATION AND ASSOCIATED USES WHICH WOULD JEOPARDISE THE GOVERNMENT'S LAND USE INTENTION IN THE AREA, DEGRADE THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND POSE
INTEREST SCIENTIFIC TO A SITE OF SPECIAL SANDPIT ALONG THE SHORE).
IN
SHEUNG PAK
THREATS
ΝΑΙ
(THE
UPON
(AMENDMENT) PLANNING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF
BE SUBJECT ΤΟ 1990, DEVELOPMENT IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE PLANS WOULD
OF THE TOWN PLANNING COMMENCEMENT ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE.
THE TOWN
BILL
ON ENACTMENT
THE
IDPA'S
DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION AREAS
WOULD BE INCLUDED
THE DIRECTOR (DPA'S) AND COULD THEN SERVE NOTICE REQUIRING REINSTATEMENT OF
GAZETTING CONDITION IT WAS IN IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PLANS OR RESTORATION OF THE LAND TO HIS SATISFACTION.
THE
IN STATUTORY OF PLANNING LAND ΤΟ THE OF THE IDPA
THE SPOKESMAN
THAT SAID PERMISSION
EXISTING
HONOURED WHEN THE IDPAS
USES WOULD
DIRECTOR GRANTED BY THE ARE INCLUDED INTO STATUTORY DPA'S.
BE
WITHIN THE IDPA'S.
TOLERATED WOULD
BE
/ON THE