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More views on TDS Review and Town Planning White Bill sought
The Planning Department today (Monday) reminded members of the public to express their views on the Territorial Development Strategy (TDS) Review 1996 and the Town Planning White Bill before the public consultations end this month.
The TDS Review and the White Bill were released separately in July this year for public comments up to the end of December this year.
Consultation documents were published to let people understand more about the topics and to encourage them to express their opinions, according to a spokesman for the Planning Department.
"About 30,000 copies of the bilingual Consultative Digest on the TDS Review and over 9,000 copies of the Consultation Paper on the Bill have been collected.
"We have also published a bilingual leaflet outlining the main points of the TDS Review for collection in a series of 10 exhibitions launched in October throughout the territory. The exhibitions were well received with over 140,000 visitors," he said.
Seminars and talks for professional bodies, briefings for Legislative Councillors, district boards members, trade associations and media representatives had been organised.
"More than 50 and 30 of such functions were held respectively for the TDS Review and the White Bill," said the spokesman, adding that he expected more written submissions to arrive towards the end of the consultation period.
"All views and comments will be carefully considered and analysed before we finalise the TDS Review and proposals on the White Bill," he stressed.
The TDS Review was prepared to create a broad land use-transport- environmental framework within the context of existing policies and standards, so as to provide a basis for the preparation of more detailed plans and programmes to meet the development needs of Hong Kong up to 2011.
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