The Town Planning Board today (April 16) announced amendments to the approved Mong Kok Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
 
     The amendments mainly involve incorporation of (i) the area covered by the approved Urban Renewal Authority (URA) Anchor Street/Fuk Tsun Street Development Scheme Plan (DSP) No. S/K3/URA1/2 into the OZP and zoning the area as "Other Specified Uses" ("OU") annotated "Hotel"; (ii) the area covered by the approved URA Prince Edward Road West/Yuen Ngai Street DSP No. S/K3/URA2/2 into the OZP and zoning the area mainly as "OU" annotated "Historic Buildings Preserved for Commercial and/or Cultural Uses"; and (iii) the area covered by the approved URA Shanghai Street/Argyle Street DSP No. S/K3/URA3/2 into the OZP and zoning the area mainly as "OU" annotated "Historic Buildings Preserved for Commercial and/or Cultural Uses". Opportunity is also taken to amend the Notes and Explanatory Statement of the OZP to reflect the above amendments and to update the general information of various land use zonings and the planning area, where appropriate.
 
     The draft URA Shantung Street/Thistle Street DSP No. S/K3/URA4/1 has replaced that part of the draft Mong Kok OZP No. S/K3/33 delineated and described in the DSP from the date the exhibition of the DSP is first notified in the Gazette on April 16.
 
     The draft Mong Kok OZP No. S/K3/33, incorporating the amendments, is now available for public inspection during office hours at (i) the Secretariat of the Board, (ii) the Planning Enquiry Counters, (iii) the Tsuen Wan and West Kowloon District Planning Office, and (iv) the Yau Tsim Mong District Office.
 
     Any person may make written representations in respect of the amendments to the Secretary of the Board on or before June 16. Any person who intends to make a representation is advised to read the revised Town Planning Board Guidelines No. 29B on "Submission and Publication of Representations, Comments on Representations and Further Representations under the Town Planning Ordinance" (TPB PG-No. 29B).

     Submission of a representation should comply with the requirements set out in TPB PG-No. 29B. In particular, the representer should take note of the following:
 
* If the representer fails to provide his or her full name and the first four alphanumeric characters of his or her Hong Kong identity card or passport number as required under TPB PG-No. 29B, the representation submitted shall be treated as not having been made; and
* The Secretariat of the Board reserves the right to require the representer to provide identity proof for verification.
 
     The Guidelines and the submission form are available at locations (i) and (ii) above and the Board's website (www.info.gov.hk/tpb).

     Copies of the draft Mong Kok OZP are available for sale at the Map Publications Centres in North Point and Yau Ma Tei. The electronic version of the OZP can be viewed at the Board's website (www.info.gov.hk/tpb).

Ends/Friday, April 16, 2021
Issued at HKT 16:00

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