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provide a basis for systematic investment on any

For the Urban Areas, this is what the significant scale. Metroplan to which you referred in your speech, Sir, is about, and with which the Land Development Corporation about which I will be saying a few words later, will be

For the rural hinterland disordered concerned. development and use of land, combined with the lack of investment, also require a similarly systematic policy for land planning, use and infrastructural investment, if these areas are to be made and remain decently habitable, and Hong Kong is to gain the benefit from them which it should. My branch and the departments most concerned with these matters have started the difficult task of putting together such a plan. It is clear that the components of this plan must be a programme of phased investment, facilitation of appropriate private development, and some degree of planning control and public land acquisition, but it is not yet sufficiently clear what the mix should

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Sir, in both the rural hinterlands and the older orban Areas, it has become clear that the present Town Planning Ordinance is no longer an adequate instrument for existing conditions in Hong Kong, both in

The respect of its procedures and also its scope. preamble to the Ordinance reads "To promote the health safety convenience and general welfare of the community by making provision for the systematic preparation and approval of plans for the future layout of exisitng and potential urban areas as well as for the types of building The bulk of the Ordinance suitable for erection therein". is thus about preparing layout plans for future urban development, and on the whole is reasonably well adopted to a green field situation and a relatively steady pace of development. But our urban areas are not fields, our New Territories hinterland is seldom green and the development situation is entirely dynamic. The Executive Council has recently agreed a complete review of the Ordinance, and first discussions on how to conduct a review have started. It is an exercise which will require a very systematic programme of cosultation, for it must cover much more fully than at present, the consultation processes in planning, the rights of those affected by planning proposals, the kinds of planning required in support of rural renewal, and the relationships, between the planning and public and private development. these points were covered directly or indirectly in the Gp advice given by members last week and I shall need their cip

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further advice in due course on this fairly massive legislation undertaking.

Sir, I have no doubt that I will receive further suggestions on Urban Renewal and on the Land Development Corporation when the debate on the Second Reading of the LDC Bill resumes shortly.

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