TNAG-0808-FCO40-1013-Use-of-Crown-lands-relinquished-by-Ministry-of-Defence-in-Ho-1978 — Page 80

No.

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Source

Mr. P.K.S. Pun for

the Royal Town

Planning Institute

(Hong Kong Branch)

Summary of Principal Points

Supports retention of Flagstaff

House; proposed spine road and

elevated link with Kennedy Road but

suggests imposition of traffic

controls to prevent extraneous

traffic; limited amount of residen-

tial development at eastern end

subject to planning, building and

density controls. Siting of Govern-

ment offices as continuation of

belt of Government uses set by

Central Government Offices and

appropriately sited in a pleasant

setting symbolically above

commercial activities lower down.

Objects to setting up of an ad hoc

committee to take over the functions

of the Town Planning Board and its

restrictive terms of reference,

lack of opportunity for the public

to visit and view the area during

the exhibition period of the pre-

liminary layout plan; lack of

information regarding existing and

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proposed development outside plan-

ing area; the superficial nature

/of

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