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North-East Lantau Port Outline Zoning Plan published
The Town Planning Board today (Friday) announced the publication of the draft North-East Lantau Port Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
The OZP covers an area of about 1,650 hectares including the proposed reclamation in North-East Lantau.
"The main purpose of the plan is to provide a land use planning framework to develop the area for major port facilities including container terminals and back-up areas, river trade cargo terminals, boatyards and port support industrial uses," a spokesman for the Board said.
"About 692 hectares of land within the area are planned for four new container terminals (CT), that is CT10 to CT13 and their back-up areas.
"There will be a total of 17 container berths, each with a terminal area of about 20 hectares.
"Adequate back-up land for parking of container vehicles and storage of containers, at a level of about 10 hectares per berth, has also been reserved," he added.
Detailed environmental impact assessments have been undertaken for the proposed CT10 and CT11, and the proposed development has been found to be environmentally acceptable subject to the implementation of certain mitigation measures including two 25-metre high earth bunds, one at the west end of CT10 and CT11.
To support the operation of the new container port, 85 hectares of land within the future reclamation are proposed for industrial and business park uses to provide high quality environment for mainly port-related offices and industrial enterprises.
In addition, about 50 hectares of land are earmarked for river trade cargo terminal and related uses; and 64 hectares of land for boatyards and marine- oriented industrial uses.