Departmental Plans
4.29. Departmental plans, including detailed layouts, continued to be produced for both the Urban Area and the New Territories. Constant attention was required to ensure that the plans did not inhibit improved forms of development arising from changed circumstances or greater capital resources, while maintaining adequate reserve for roads and other public and social services. A notable factor was the very large sums that developers were prepared to spend on site formation but the main problem was still the great intensity of building development and re-development that was taking place and which continued unabated.
Research and Statistics
4.30. Forecasts of future population growth by districts were made on the basis of the 1961 Census, and known public and private development proposals. This information was supplied to the public utility companies and other government departments to assist them in their own planning.
4.31. A number of land use and constructional surveys were carried out, principally in connexion with residential population densities and low cost housing and resettlement.
Selection of sites for Government and Community projects
4.32. The reservation of sites for projects in this category continued both in regard to the overall distribution of community services and also, more particularly, in respect of sites for specialized needs in the Central Area.
4.33 The reservation of a number of proposed public open spaces in Hong Kong and Kowloon was approved by the Land Development Planning Committee.
Main Planning Schemes dealt with during 1962-63
4.34. Hong Kong Island
(1) Town Planning Ordinance
Central District Comprehensive Redevelopment Plan (No. LH3/15) was approved by the Governor-in-Council in September, 1962. More detailed 50' to 1" Layout Plans of the Central Area were completed in order that engineering works could proceed and prepare the way for land sales.
(2) Departmental Plans
(a) Approved
Upper Peak Tram Station-Staged Redevelopment Plan. Stanley & District-Outline Development Plan.
Departmental Plans
4.29. Departmental plans, including detailed layouts, continued to be produced for both the Urban Area and the New Territories. Constant attention was required to ensure that the plans did not inhibit improved forms of development arising from changed circumstances or greater capital resources, while maintaining adequate reserve for roads and other public and social services. A notable factor was the very large sums that developers were prepared to spend on site formation but the main problem was still the great intensity of building development and re-development that was taking place and which continued unabated.
Research and Statistics
4.30. Forecasts of future population growth by districts were made on the basis of the 1961 Census, and known public and private develop- ment proposals. This information was supplied to the public utility companies and other government departments to assist them in their own planning.
4.31. A number of land use and constructional surveys were carried out, principally in connexion with residential population densities and low cost housing and resettlement.
Selection of sites for Government and Community projects
4.32. The reservation of sites for projects in this category continued both in regard to the overall distribution of community services and also, more particularly, in respect of sites for specialized needs in the Central Area.
4.33 The reservation of a number of proposed public open spaces in Hong Kong and Kowloon was approved by the Land Development Planning Committee.
Main Planning Schemes dealt with during 1962-63
4.34. Hong Kong Island
(1) Town Planning Ordinance
Central District Comprehensive Redevelopment Plan (No. LH 3/15)
was approved by the Governor-in-Council in September, 1962. More detailed 50' to 1" Layout Plans of the Central Area were completed in order that engineering works could proceed and prepare the way for land sales.
(2) Departmental Plans
(a) Approved
Upper Peak Tram Station-Staged Redevelopment Plan. Stanley & District-Outline Development Plan.
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