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Town Planning Board publishes annual report
The Town Planning Board has published its 1994 annual report.
Since the first annual report for 1990, the Board's annual report has taken an active and systematic approach in informing the public, planners and planning-related professionals of the Board's work in the year under review and the statutory planning and application procedures.
The 1994 annual report outlines the statutory planning process in terms of plan- making and implementation as well as the planning permission system.
It also contains a description and statistics of work undertaken by the Board in the year.
In the foreword of the report, the outgoing Chairman of the Board, the former Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Mr Tony Eason, described 1994 as an eventful and busy year for the Board.
He said a record number of 1,005 applications under section 16 of the Town Planning Ordinance were processed by the Board last year, showing a 37 per cent increase compared with the previous year.
Similarly, 156 applications were reviewed under section 17 of the Ordinance, representing a large increase of 61 per cent compared with 1993.
In addition, over 400 objections were considered in the year.
The report is divided into three parts. The first part covers the establishment and functions of the Board; the second gives an account of its work in 1994; and the third explains its work on nature conservation, in particular that for the Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay area.
The English version of the report can now be bought at $28 a 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/Saturday, May 13, 1995
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