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Town Planning Board annual report published
The Town Planning Board has published its 1993 annual report.
Since 1991, the Board's annual report has taken an active and systematic approach in informing the public of the Board's work in the year under review and the statutory planning and application procedures.
Apart from a description and statistics of work, the 1993 annual report also outlines the statutory planning process in terms of plan-making and implementation as well as the planning permission system.
In the foreword of the report, the Chairman of the Board, the Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Mr Tony Eason, said the Board last year focused its attention on finding an appropriate means to regulate development intensity in Kowloon and New Kowloon.
He added that a substantial portion of the Board's workload during the year was also generated by the need to prepare rural outline zoning plans (OZPs) for the New Territories.
A fresh set of guidelines for development within the Deep Bay Buffer Zones near Mai Po Nature Reserve and its surrounding areas was also published by the Board in the year.
The report is divided into four parts. The first part covers the establishment and functions of the Board; the second explains the review of building density and height restrictions in Kowloon and New Kowloon; and the third gives an account of the work of the Board in 1993.
The remaining part of the publication centers on selected case reports on planning applications and objections to plans prepared by the Board.
The English version of the report can now be bought at $36 per copy at the Government Publications Centre, ground floor, Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway.
The Chinese version will be put on sale once it is available.
End/Thursday, December 22, 1994
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