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Planning, Land and Infrastructure

The NDAs will provide about 60,000 new flats altogether, with about 60 per cent being public rental housing and Home Ownership Scheme units, to accommodate an additional population of about 173,000. The two areas will also produce about 37,700 new job opportunities. Development works are ongoing, to be completed fully by 2031. The first phase involves site formation and associated engineering infrastructure for about 16,000 flats to accommodate about 46,500 residents, with the first population intake in 2023 at the earliest, and to support subsequent NDA development. Detailed design and site investigation for this first phase were under way and major construction works could start in 2018 at the earliest.

Tung Chung New Town Extension

The proposed Tung Chung New Town Extension is expected to provide about 49,400 flats and a commercial hub with gross floor area of about 877,000 sq m for office, retail and hotel use along with about 40,000 new jobs to meet housing, social, economic, environmental and local needs. The statutory plans and reclamation works were gazetted in January and the environmental impact assessment report was approved in April. Detailed design and site investigation started in mid-2016. Construction was anticipated to begin in end-2017 for the first population intake in end-2023 at the earliest.

Quarry Sites

The Anderson Road Quarry site and Ex-Cha Kwo Ling Kaolin Mine site are envisaged to provide about 9,400 and 2,300 new flats to accommodate additional populations of about 25,000 and 6,000 respectively. Outline zoning plans covering these sites were amended in 2015 and 2014 respectively. For the Anderson Road Quarry site, design of the site formation and infrastructure works were under way and construction was anticipated to begin in 2017 for the first. population intake in 2023-24.

For the Ex-Lamma Quarry Area in Sok Kwu Wan, the government is exploring how to implement developments proposed under an ongoing planning and engineering study and expects to complete the task in 2017.

A preliminary land use study was launched for the Lam Tei Quarry and its adjoining areas to identify and examine possible land uses and formulate a land use concept plan for study sites and strategic cavern areas in Lam Tei.

Hung Shui Kiu New Development Area

The Hung Shui Kiu NDA will provide about 61,000 new flats to accommodate an additional population of about 176,000, and will produce about 150,000 new job opportunities, according to a revised recommended outline development plan announced in September. The environmental impact assessment report was approved in December 2016. An outline zoning plan was under preparation, with the first population intake expected in 2024.

Yuen Long South

A revised recommended outline development plan for Yuen Long South was under formulation after a community engagement exercise on the draft plan ended in the second quarter.

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