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Hong Kong has extensive undeveloped tracts of natural landscape which contain a diverse habitat supporting numerous native plant species and wildlife and has a long history of human settlement from which a variety of cultural relics remain.
"The revised chapter gives a detailed account of current practices of conservation in the existing land use planning framework in Hong Kong.
"It provides guidelines for conserving and enhancing the environment by protecting the existing conservation areas and heritage features, by identifying new areas for conservation and by compensating for areas of conservation value which are lost to essential development projects.
Topics covered in the revised chapter include the general principles of conservation, measures to protect natural landscapes and habitats, historic buildings, archaeological sites and other antiquities.
The existing legislative provisions and administrative means for conservation, the enforcement mechanism, and the roles of government departments and decision-making bodies related to conservation are also covered in the chapter.
The revised chapter is now available for sale at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong at $22 a copy.
Published in a series of 11 chapters each devoted to a particular aspect of land uses or facilities, the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines are being sold on an individual chapter basis.
End/Monday, March 6, 1995
Water storage figure
Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 68.5 per cent of capacity or 401.698 million cubic metres.
This time last year the reservoirs contained 399.761 million cubic metres of water, representing 68.2 per cent of capacity.
End/Monday, March 6, 1995