Planning Standards and Guidelines. Following discussions with the Environmental Protection Department on the anticipated noise levels, it is concluded that measures can be provided to reduce noise to levels such that they do not exceed those recommended. Such measures include minor adjustments
adjustments to the vertical alignment of slip roads, provision of noise barriers, earth mounding and landscaping. Detailed investigations are continuing, in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Department, to determine the most practical solution, which may be a combination of any of the above measures.
For the majority of the estate there will be either no noticeable or significant increase in traffic noise or reduction in air quality. The visual impact of the interchange will be softened by extensive landscaping and
landscaping and the environment could well be enhanced by the new tunnel. Whilst the change in environmental conditions may affect some of those properties in close proximity to the road, the overall effect of the scheme upon Taikoo Shing Estate is likely to be beneficial and property values generally would not be adversely affected especially as
ameliorative measures are to be introduced.
28 Issue (h)
"possible closure of the Shell petrol filling station on Lei Yue Mun Road"
It is proposed to construct a transport interchange north of Lei Yue Mun Road below the existing Lam Tin Estate to serve the MTR Lam Tin Station. This will affect the petrol filling station on Lei Yue
on Lei Yue Mun Road. Talks with the Shell Company are proceeding on this issue. Government has accepted in principal the desirability of reprovisioning the station nearby. Proposals have been put forward by the Shell Company and the Consortium to achieve this, and these are now under active consideration. In the unlikely event that neither of the proposals is practicable, resumption would be carried out under the Mass
the Mass Transit Railway (Land Resumption
Resumption and Related Provisions) Ordinance (Chapter 276).
29
Issue
(i)
"introduction
of the Quarry Bay Interchange requires a change in land use, a consequent reduction in the provision of open space and schools resulting in a deterioration in the town planning environment"
The present Outline Development
Development Plan No. D/H21/7H, circulated on 2 February 1985, showed a possible landfall and interchange north of the Island Eastern Corridor for a road only crossing of the harbour. The present scheme and plan is for a combined road and rail crossing with an interchange south of the Island Eastern Corridor and is shown on the proposed new OZP No. S/H21/2B circulated on 26 March 1986. Both plans are
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