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Wednesday, March 29, 1972

REVISION OF LAND POLICY IN NEW TERRITORIES

Measures Being Formulated In Detail

The District Commissioner for the New Territories, the Hon. D.C. Bray,

said today that separate measures are being formulated in detail to revise

Government's land policy in the New Territories.

The measures relate to rules and procedures for building small houses;

to the amount of compensation paid on resumption of agricultural land for

public purposes; to the question of re-entry of land for breach of lease

conditions; and to restrictions on development in layout areas where plans

for development exist but where no development work is proceeding.

Mr. Bray was speaking in the Legislative Council when debate on the

Budget was resumed.

He explained that the Heung Yee Kuk last summer had raised four points

of land policy which had been under discussion during recent months.

"I must say I found our own rules and procedures on the building of

small houses were still rather restrictive," he said.

Two sorts of control were involved; the first being controls on

siting and location and the second being plans of the buildings themselves,

he explained.

The controls on siting involved some sort of crude planning, which

was very difficult if you were trying to do it without accompanying the planning

with infrastructure works, he added.

/He said