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Draft Ping Shan and Tong Yan San Tsuen OZPs published
The Town Planning Board today (Friday) announced the publication of two draft Outline Zoning Plans (OZPs) for Ping Shan and Tong Yan San Tsuen respectively.
These two rural OZPs, which replace the approved Development Permission Area (DPA) plans covering the rural areas of Ping Shan and Tong Yan San Tsuen in Yuen Long, would provide more definite and comprehensive land use zones to guide and control development in the areas, a spokesman for the Board said.
"Similar to DPA plans, unauthorised developments within the two OZPs are subject to enforcement actions," he said.
The spokesman pointed out that the general planning intention of the draft Ping Shan OZP, which covered about 601 hectares of land, was to designate the area for sub-urban development with a district centre in Hung Shui Kiu and a local centre near Ping Shan San Tsuen.
"It intends to encourage upgrading of the environment through comprehensively planned development, to reserve land for village expansion and strategic road/railway links, to protect historical/cultural heritage sites and to conserve the natural landscape features of the upland portion of the area," he said.
About 107 hectares of land on the plan have been zoned 'Village Type Development' to facilitate village extension. About 45 hectares have been zoned 'Residential (Group A)', 'Residential (Group B)' and 'Residential (Group C)' to allow sub-urban types of development with different intensities.
Six sites with a total area of 13 hectares mainly along Castle Peak Road have been zoned 'Comprehensive Development Area' to promote sub-urban developments, to enhance Hung Shui Kiu as a district centre and to provide significant improvement to the environment.
To serve the needs of the local as well as district population, about 15 hectares of land have been reserved for 'Government/Institution/Community' and another 10 hectares have been zoned 'Open Space'.
On the plan, about 39 hectares of land have been zoned 'Recreation' to encourage the development of recreation and tourism.