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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -15 March 1989 香港立法局 一九八九年三月十五日

Provision of public facilities

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2. 潘志輝議員問:請政府告知本局,目前全港各區的公共設施,包括幼兒中心、社區中心及溫 習室等,是否完全符合“香港規劃標準與準則“?若否,那一區最缺乏公共設施?那類公共設施 最不足?政府會採取何種措施及何時可以全面改善目前公共設施之不足?

SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, this is one of the most comprehensive questions I have ever heard in this Council. I am afraid my answer does not begin to do it justice, but while the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines (HKPSG) provides a theoretical basis for the number and type of facilities to be provided according to population, actual requirements vary depending on demographic characteristics in each district. Providing the facilities themselves also depends upon the availability of suitable sites, resources and the priority assigned to each.

In new towns, where enough sites have been specifically reserved at the outset, provision of facilities will generally catch up with demand as these areas develop to maturity in the early 1990s. They will catch up at that stage but in the urban areas there was a shortage of sites. Facilities that are most lacking are open space, day care centres for elderly and indoor recreation centres. The situation, however, is expected to improve in the next decade as redevelopment of older private residential areas and public housing estates takes place thus reducing population density and freeing suitable sites for government institutional and community(GIC) uses.

I have annexed schedules showing the planning standards for each type of facility, and an assessment of the provision of each type of facility in Table 1 and Table 2 of the written version of this reply.

Table 1

Facility

HKPSG standards for GIC facilities, and so on.

1. Primary school

2. Secondary school

(after 1990)

Standard

1 bi-sessional classroom per 75 persons aged 6-11

1 uni-sessional class for 50 persons aged 12-18

Area served

local

territorial