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responsibilities, I am concerned with the extent the coastline has been utilised to improve amenities and the environment. I have the following questions:
(a) In the districts under UC responsibilities, what is the allocation of land use along the coastline? How many promenades are there? (Please list out the number of private housing estates, public housing estates and UC promenades.) What is the total area of UC promenades?
(b) Is there any Council policy to seek land along the waterfront, newly reclaimed land and redeveloped urban areas for constructing UC promenades? Under the town planning policy and the relevant legislation, is there any provision for according priority in using waterfront for developing promenades?
(c) Under the Council's five-year district capital works programme, will there be any increase in the number and area of promenades up to the year 2000?
(d) At present, many places along the waterfront in the urban areas are occupied by barges for berthing purposes. Also, many public cargo working areas (PCWAs) of the Marine Department have taken up the waterfront. Has the Urban Council ever discussed with the Marine Department to step up enforcement control for prevention of illegal berthing or use of waterfront? On the other hand, has the Urban Council ever discussed with the Planning Department and the Marine Department to gradually relocate PCWAS in the urban areas, or to replace PCWAS by more space-saving piers so that the Council can obtain more land along the waterfront for development of promenades?
MR. RONNIE WONG MAN-CHIU, CHAIRMAN OF THE RECREATION SELECT COMMITTEE, replied (in Cantonese): This question is on the extent the coastlines have been utilised to improve amenities and the environment and is in four parts.
The first part asks the distribution in the types of land uses along the waterfront in the districts under UC responsibility and the number and total land areas of promenades which belong to the Council as well as others in public/private housing developments.
Hong Kong Island and Kowloon peninsula together has a total of about 110 km of waterfront and Ap Lei Chau has another 5 km. About 47 km of the waterfront, mainly along the eastern and southern sides of the Hong Kong Island, has been designated as 'Coastal Protection Area' in the Metroplan. Along the shorelines of Victoria Harbour, the existing uses on the waterfront include typhoon shelters, piers and marine uses, cargo working areas, industrial uses, wholesale markets, sewage screening plants, residential developments, roads, parks and promenades. The Council currently manages promenades covering a waterfrontage of about 3.8 km with a total land take of about 6 ha. In addition to beaches, there are 11 UC venues including various parks and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre which occupy about 2.5 km of
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responsibilities, I am concerned with the extent the coastline has been utilised to improve amenities and the environment. I have the following questions:
(a) In the districts under UC responsibilities, what is the allocation of land use along the coastline? How many promenades are there? (Please list out the number of private housing estates, public housing estates and UC promenades.) What is the total area of UC promenades?
(b) Is there any Council policy to seek land along the waterfront, newly reclaimed land and redeveloped urban areas for constructing UC promenades? Under the town planning policy and the relevant legislation, is there any provision for according priority in using waterfront for developing promenades?
(c) Under the Council's five-year district capital works programme, will there be any increase in the number and area of promenades up to the year 2000?
(d) At present, many places along the waterfront in the urban areas are occupied by barges for berthing purposes. Also, many public cargo working areas (PCWAs) of the Marine Department have taken up the waterfront. Has the Urban Council ever discussed with the Marine Department to step up enforcement control for prevention of illegal berthing or use of waterfront? On the other hand, has the Urban Council ever discussed with the Planning Department and the Marine Department to gradually relocate PCWAS in the urban areas, or to replace PCWAS by more space-saving piers so that the Council can obtain more land along the waterfront for development of promenades?
MR. RONNIE WONG MAN-CHIU, CHAIRMAN OF THE RECREATION SELECT COMMITTEE, replied (in Cantonese):-This question is on the extent the coastlines have been utilised to improve amenities and the environment and is in four parts.
The first part asks the distribution in the types of land uses along the waterfront in the districts under UC responsibility and the number and total land areas of promenades which belong to the Council as well as others in public/private housing developments.
Hong Kong Island and Kowloon peninsula together has a total of about 110 km of waterfront and Ap Lei Chau has another 5 km. About 47 km of the waterfront, mainly along the eastern and southern sides of the Hong Kong Island, has been designated as 'Coastal Protection Area' in the Metroplan. Along the shorelines of Victoria Harbour, the existing uses on the waterfront include typhoon shelters, piers and marine uses, cargo working areas, industrial uses, wholesale markets, sewage screening plants, residential developments, roads, parks and promenades. The Council currently manages promenades covering a waterfrontage of about 3.8 km with a total land take of about 6 ha. In addition to beaches, there are 11 UC venues including various parks and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre which occupy about 2.5 km of
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