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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL

URBAN COUNCIL

Statement of Aims for 1973

RECREATION AND AMENITIES DIVISION

Public Open Space

1.

Appendix 1

(a) To seek the provision of adequate local open space simultaneously with all new housing development schemes. (b) To ensure that in all development and redevelopment schemes local and district open space is provided in accordance with approved planning standards and in a rational manner which recognises and meets the varying active and passive recreational needs of the community. To seek the early provision of local public open space to serve the residents of all of the older districts, if necessary by reclamation or urban renewal schemes.

(c)

(d) To press for improvement of the approved planning standards for the provision of public open space.

(e) To ensure the proper conservation and use of all land designated as green belt and also all areas of scenic or recreational value.

Parks, Recreation and Amenities

2.

(a) To manage and maintain to a high standard all parks, recreation and amenity facilities.

(b) To push ahead vigorously with plans for new parks, recreation and amenities, with particular emphasis on providing new swimming pools, in order to match the growing public need.

(c) To pursue and sustain an imaginative and varied programme of public entertainment that involves young people to the maximum extent; to promote the fullest co-operation of all public and private organizations in order to meet the community's recreational needs, and to assist in the co-ordination of all such efforts to achieve this aim.

(d) To maintain liaison with the many public and private organizations which have an interest in the Council's projects or which may be able to assist in meeting the demand for additional facilities.

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(e) To keep under continuous review the active recreation needs of all sections of the population, including the possible provision of new types of facilities.

(f) To recognize the need for passive as well as active recreation and to meet this need by providing sitting-out areas within and close to densely populated districts.

Amenity Planting

Staff

3. (a) To continue with the expanded amenity tree, shrub and flower planting programme, with particular emphasis on the mass planting of colourful flowering species. (b) To continue to lay down increased stocks of semi-mature trees for planting out along roadsides, and round new public buildings, utilizing all available space for such planting, preserving mature trees wherever possible; and to collaborate with the Director of Public Works in the creation of tree-lined avenues and promenades.

(c) To seek public co-operation in beautifying Hong Kong with trees, shrubs and flowers and, when planted, in their care and protection.

4. To improve and augment the staff of the department with a view to ensuring its adequacy, in numbers and quality, for the speedy and efficient implementation of the Council's policies.

Advertisements

5. To press for the early promulgation of the new by-laws; thereafter to ensure that all advertising signs covered by the legislation meet the new legal requirements, and are licensed where necessary.

Stadia

6.

(a) To maintain a high standard of management of all stadia. (b) To expand the programme of providing covered games areas in recreation grounds.

(c) To press forward with the development of more district stadia in the urban areas.

ABATTOIRS, HAWKERS AND MARKETS DIVISION

Hawkers

7. (a) To give high priority to the implementation of the new hawker policy approved by the Governor-in-Council in March, 1969 firmly and impartially.

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