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Planning, Land and Infrastructure

Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point

The Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point is a cross-boundary infrastructural project jointly carried out by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. It adopts a design concept of direct access by passengers and vehicles. A public car park, pick-up and drop-off areas for private cars and a pedestrian subway linked to the adjacent area will be provided in the passenger terminal building. Construction started in 2013 for completion in 2018.

Lok Ma Chau Loop

The development of the Lok Ma Chau Loop, covering 87 hectares, will comprise higher education, high-tech R&D and cultural and creative industries, based on a planning and engineering study conducted jointly by the HKSAR Government and the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. In 2016, both governments continued to discuss the implementation of the development. Detailed design of land decontamination and advance engineering works was in progress.

Kai Tak

The Kai Tak Development is a large-scale, highly complex urban development project under phased implementation, covering the former airport precinct and the adjoining areas with a footprint of about 320 hectares. The first phase of infrastructural works and facilities have been commissioned, mainly the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, two public housing estates, two primary schools, a fire station, the Trade and Industry Tower, Kwun Tong Promenade, Runway Park Phase 1, early stages of infrastructural works and the district cooling system. Major items under construction or about to start include Hong Kong Children's Hospital, Kowloon East Regional Headquarters and Operational Base cum Ngau Tau Kok Divisional Police Station, a secondary school, the remaining infrastructural works and the district cooling system, and the section of the MTR Shatin to Central Link within the Kai Tak Development.

In 2016, the CEDD completed a technical study on increasing the development intensity of the Kai Tak Development and recommended increasing residential and office gross floor areas through rezoning and raising building heights and plot ratios.

The department was also conducting a detailed feasibility study on a proposed environmentally friendly linkage system for Kowloon East to enhance the area's connectivity and support its transformation into a new CBD.

Wan Chai

The main purpose of the Wan Chai Development Phase II project is to provide land for essential transport infrastructure, including the Central-Wan Chai Bypass. The reclaimed land will also be used to develop a harbourfront promenade from Central to North Point. The land required for the bypass has been formed. The roads connecting to the bypass will be completed in the first quarter of 2018 before the commissioning of the bypass between end-2018 and the first quarter of 2019.

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