WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1990
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NO POLLUTING INDUSTRIES WITHIN COUNTRY PARKS
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THE PRACTICE OF THE COUNTRY PARKS AUTHORITY TO REFUSE APPROVAL TO ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT WHICH WOULD HARM THE ENVIRONMENT SEEMED TO WORKING OUT VERY WELL.
THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON JD MCGREGOR, MR BARNES SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY POLLUTING INDUSTRIES OR RATHER INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ACTUALLY SITUATED WITHIN COUNTRY PARKS.
MR BARNES SAID THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT THINK THAT IT WAS ABLE
OR NEEDED TO IMPOSE A BLANKET BAN.
HE SAID THAT WHEN THE COUNTRY PARKS WERE FIRST MOST OF THE EXISTING VILLAGES WITHIN THE GENERAL AREA of PARKS WERE ACTUALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE PARKS.
ESTABLISHED,
COUNTRY
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ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND ELSEWHERE, THE BORDERS OF THE COUNTRY PARKS CAME RIGHT UP TO THE URBAN AREAS INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL AREAS, HE SAID.
"SO A BAN ON INDUSTRIES JUST OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY PARKS WOULD BE VERY MUCH A CASE BY CASE BUSINESS, FOR WHICH DISCRETIONARY BUT ENFORCEABLE PLANNING POWERS WOULD SEEM TO BE MORE APPROPRIATE THAN A TOTAL BAN.
MR BARNES SAID PROPOSALS WERE BEING MADE то EXTEND TOWN PLANNING CONTROLS TO COVER NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RURAL AREAS, AND POLICIES ON SQUATTER CONTROL WERE UNDER CONTINUAL REVIEW.
GREATER EMPHASIS ON GOOD DESIGN AND QUALITY IN PUBLIC HOUSING
THE
HOUSING AUTHORITY IS PLACING GREATER EMPHASIS ON GOOD DESIGN AND QUALITY IN ITS PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAMME.
THIS IS STATED BY ITS CHAIRMAN, SIR DAVID ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HOUSING LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
AKERS-JONES, IN THE LATEST AUTHORITY TABLED AT THE
(WEDNESDAY)
IN HIS REVIEW OF THE YEAR, SIR DAVID POINTS OUT THAT WITH 2.9 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING, THE PROGRAMME IS WELL ON THE WAY TO PROVIDING HOMES FOR ALL IN NEED BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.
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