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Planning, Land and Infrastructure

Tuen Mun West

A planning and engineering study was in progress to examine the development potential of Tuen Mun areas 40 and 46 and the adjoining areas. A preliminary outline development plan was under formulation, taking into account comments received during the first community engagement exercise.

Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities Island of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

A planning, engineering and architectural study was being conducted to explore the optimum use of land at the island for aboveground and underground commercial development and other economic uses. The study will recommend an overall development concept and formulate development parameters. A draft recommended outline development plan was being drawn up ahead of the stage 2 community engagement exercise in 2017.

Cycle Track Network in New Territories

A vast cycle track network in the New Territories is under development in phases, from Ma On Shan in the east to Tuen Mun and Tsuen Wan in the west. Continuous cycle tracks spanning 30km from Ma On Shan to Sheung Shui are open to the public. The Tuen Mun-Yuen Long section was substantially completed in end-2016 and the remaining works of the Yuen Long- Sheung Shui section were in progress.

Urban Renewal

Urban renewal improves living conditions in old urban areas, primarily through redevelopment and rehabilitation of buildings in need of repair. The bureau formulates policy on urban renewal and oversees the work of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), a statutory body established to carry out urban renewal.

The URA takes a district-based approach in accordance with the 2011 Urban Renewal Strategy to ensure its self-initiated projects create greater planning and social gains upon redevelopment. In 2016, five development projects and schemes in Kowloon City District commenced under the approach to provide over 2,800 flats by 2025-26.

Building rehabilitation improves the built environment and reduces the need and urgency for redevelopment. As at 31 December, the URA's rehabilitation programmes had benefited about 3,700 building blocks.

Building Development

Private Sector

In 2016, work started on superstructures at 123 building sites, covering a gross floor area of 2.02 million sq m. Altogether 557 such buildings, with a total gross floor area of 2.13 million sq m, were completed at a total cost of $72 billion, compared with 623 buildings with a gross floor area of 1.9 million sq m, built at a cost of $50 billion in 2015.

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