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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990

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PUBLICATION OF INTERIM DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION AREA PLANS

THE DIRECTOR

GAZETTING OF TWO

*

OF PLANNING

THE

IN

ANNOUNCED (FRIDAY) TODAY

PERMISSION AREA (IDPA) MORE INTERIM DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR NGAU TAM MEI AND THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK LAI AREAS NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES.

GAZETTED

ON

SINCE THE TOWN PLANNING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990 WAS

SO FAR BEEN PUBLISHED JULY 27, 1990, A TOTAL OF 17 IDPA PLANS HAVE COVERING A TOTAL AREA OF ABOUT 8,550 HECTARES.

BY HILLS

NEW IN

THE

TERRITORIES,

EASTERN

IS AND

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT SAID THAT NGAU TAM MEI. LOCATED

THE

PART OF NORTHWEST IN

NORTHERN

SHIELDED ESSENTIALLY A LARGE VALLEY SOUTHERN BOUNDARIES.

IS "ONE OF THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF DESIGNATING THE AREA AS IDPA

PREVENT FURTHER TO SET OUT A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT CONTROL TO

UNREGULATED DEGRADATION OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE

HE SAID. OPEN STORAGE AND INDUSTRIAL USES,

AREA OF ABOUT 901 HECTARES THE NGAU TAM MEI IDPA COVERS AN

176 HECTARES OF WHILE THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK NAI IDPA COVERS LAND.

IN THE

THE

NAI IDPA IS SITUATED THE SHEUNG PAK NAI AND HA PAK WESTERN PART OF NORTHWEST PART OF NORTHWEST NEW TERRITORIES ALONG COAST OF OUTER DEEP BAY.

IMPROPER

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO PREVENT

OF OPEN STORAGE FILLING ACTIVITIES, AND UNCONTROLLABLE PROLIFERATION AND ASSOCIATED USES WHICH WOULD JEOPARDISE THE GOVERNMENT'S LAND USE INTENTION IN THE AREA, DEGRADE THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT AND POSE

INTEREST SCIENTIFIC TO A SITE OF SPECIAL SANDPIT ALONG THE SHORE).

IN

SHEUNG PAK

THREATS

ΝΑΙ

(THE

UPON

(AMENDMENT) PLANNING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF

BE SUBJECT ΤΟ 1990, DEVELOPMENT IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE PLANS WOULD

OF THE TOWN PLANNING COMMENCEMENT ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE.

THE TOWN

BILL

ON ENACTMENT

THE

IDPA'S

DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION AREAS

WOULD BE INCLUDED

THE DIRECTOR (DPA'S) AND COULD THEN SERVE NOTICE REQUIRING REINSTATEMENT OF

GAZETTING CONDITION IT WAS IN IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PLANS OR RESTORATION OF THE LAND TO HIS SATISFACTION.

THE

IN STATUTORY OF PLANNING LAND ΤΟ THE OF THE IDPA

THE SPOKESMAN

THAT SAID PERMISSION

EXISTING

HONOURED WHEN THE IDPAS

USES WOULD

DIRECTOR GRANTED BY THE ARE INCLUDED INTO STATUTORY DPA'S.

BE

WITHIN THE IDPA'S.

TOLERATED WOULD

BE

/ON THE