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planning standards and guidelines for community facilities and internal transport facilities were revised.

Publicity

The Planning Department produced a teaching kit entitled 'Planning for a Sustainable City' for secondary school teachers of Liberal Studies and which were distributed free to all secondary schools in Hong Kong in December 2011.

Land Supply

The Government's policy is to ensure sufficient land supply and provide quality infrastructure to maintain a fair and stable environment for the healthy and sustainable development of the property market. In response to market demand, the Government has adopted a two-pronged approach, comprising the Application List System and government-initiated sale arrangement, to increase land supply. This approach has been effective in increasing land supply.

Since the announcement of the 2011-12 Land Sale Programme in February 2011, the Government has been supplying land in a proactive manner. Between April and December 2011, it put up for sale 22 residential sites that could provide for the construction of about 7 400 flats through government-initiated land sale or successful triggering of land sale by developers. To increase the supply of small- and medium-sized flats and better safeguard the quantity of flat supply, the Government has imposed restrictions on flat size at three sites on which at least 2 260 small- and medium-sized flats could be built, and on the number of flats at another five sites on which at least 3 790 flats could be built.

The new land reserve policy provides the Government with the required capacity to respond promptly to ensure a stable operating environment for the private property market. Land reclamation on an appropriate scale outside Victoria Harbour and rock cavern development can be possible options for increasing land supply and creating a land bank. In addition, reclamation offers a sustainable solution for handling surplus public landfills and contaminated sediments. In July 2011, the Civil Engineering and Development Department started a feasibility study of these land supply options which included a territory-wide search for suitable sites for reclamation and a review of potential sites identified for rock cavern development.

A two-stage public engagement exercise was launched in November 2011 to assess these initiatives. The site selection criteria and the proposal for relocation of the Sha Tin sewage treatment works and the Mount Davis and Kennedy Town fresh water service reservoirs to caverns to free the original sites for housing and other uses, were discussed.

Land Acquisition

Acquisition of private land for public use may be achieved through negotiation. or resumption under the relevant ordinances which provide for compensation for the property's value and for the loss of business. If agreement on the amount of money to be paid cannot be reached, either party may go to the Lands Tribunal for adjudication. Some 23 320 square metres of private land, comprising about 2 810