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The Chief Executive in Council has approved the draft Clear Water Bay Peninsula South Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
"The approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide the development and redevelopment within the Clear Water Bay Peninsula South area," a spokesman for the Town Planning Board (the Board) said today (June 9).
The Planning Scheme Area of the Clear Water Bay Peninsula South OZP covers about 425 hectares of land. It is bounded by Sheung Sze Wan in the north, Clear Water Bay Country Park in the west and north-east, Clear Water Bay in the east and Tai Miu Wan in the south-west.
The general planning intention of the OZP is to conserve the undisturbed natural environment and to protect it from encroachment by development, to confine residential and village type developments to the already established areas to avoid overtaxing the limited infrastructure in the Area, and to create a suitable environment for both land-based and shore-based recreational activities.
A significant part of the area covered by undisturbed woodland and natural hillslopes is zoned "Conservation Area" while the inter-tidal sands in Sheung Sze Wan and the long stretch of natural coastlines in the eastern and southern parts of the area are zoned "Coastal Protection Area". The two zones take up an area of about 190 and 36 hectares respectively.
Another 28 hectares of densely vegetated areas around the villages and along roads is zoned "Green Belt" to define the limit of development and to provide land for roadside amenities.
About 37 hectares of land is zoned "Village Type Development" to cover five recognized villages in the Area, namely Ha Yeung (including Mau Po, Siu Hang Hau and Leung Fai Tin), Sheung Sze Wan, Tai Hang Hau, Tai Wan Tau (including Tai Au Mun and Tsiu Wo) and Po Toi O, and a non-recognised village, namely Ha Yeung New Village.
Two existing single dwellings fronting Clear Water Bay Road to the north-east of Tai Wan Tau and covering 0.2 hectare of land are zoned "Residential (Group C)".
About 2.4 hectares of land is zoned "Open Space" to cover the Clear Water Bay First and Second Beaches, and the two existing public open spaces at the Tin Hau Temple and near Po Toi O Village. Two sites, with a total area of about 0.5 hectare, are zoned "Recreation" to reflect the beach related uses at the Clear Water Bay First Beach and the shore-based recreational uses near the beach in Sheung Sze Wan.
About 121 hectares of land is zoned "Other Specified Uses" to cover the Clearwater Bay Golf and Country Club, and the two existing piers at Po Toi O Village and Tai Miu Wan.
Another 2.4 hectares of land is zoned "Government, Institution or Community" to cover the Cham Shan Monastery, two Homes for the Aged, Tin Hau Temple and other Government and community facilities to serve the local population and visitors.
The approved Clear Water Bay Peninsula South OZP No. S/SK-CWBS/2 is now available for public inspection during normal office hours at the Secretariat of the Town Planning Board, the Planning Enquiry Counters in North Point and Sha Tin, the Sai Kung and Islands District Planning Office, the Sai Kung District Office and the Sai Kung 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 Board's website at http://www.info.gov.hk/tpb.
Ends/Friday, June 9, 2006
Issued at HKT 15:15
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