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The Chief Executive in Council has approved the draft Kwu Tung North Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
"The approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide the development and redevelopment within the Kwu Tung North area," a spokesman for the Town Planning Board said today (November 10).
The general planning intention of the area is to promote and conserve the rural character through control on urban sprawl, minimisation of flood risk and preservation of agricultural land, and to achieve coherent planning and control of the open storage development.
Only low-density residential developments are allowed in the three "Comprehensive Development Area" zones, totalling about 18.2 hectares of land, to the south-west of Shek Tsai Leng, to the south of Yin Kong Village and to the north-east of Shek Tsai Leng.
To meet the indigenous villagers' demand for small houses, some 14 hectares of land is zoned "Village Type Development". To serve the needs of the local as well as district population, a total of 11.5 hectares and 7.2 hectares of land are zoned "Government, Institution or Community" and "Open Space" respectively.
In order to encourage the upgrading of existing informal industrial uses and to cater for the growing demand for open storage uses in the area, 26 hectares and 43.4 hectares of land are zoned "Industrial (Group D)" and "Open Storage" respectively.
About 131.6 hectares of agricultural land is zoned "Agriculture" and some 107.2 hectares of land is zoned "Green Belt".
The approved Kwu Tung North OZP No. S/NE-KTN/8 is now available for public inspection during office hours at the Secretariat of the Town Planning Board; the Planning Enquiry Counters of the Planning Department; the Sha Tin, Tai Po and North District Planning Office; the North District Office and the Sheung Shui Rural Committee.
Copies of the approved plan are available for sale at the Map Publications Centres in North Point and Yau Ma Tei. The electronic version of the plan can be viewed on the Town Planning BoardĄ¯s website at http://www.info.gov.hk/tpb.
Ends/Friday, November 10, 2006
Issued at HKT 15:45
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