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Table I Summary of the three major recommendation directions

Speed Large-scale developments Private housing developments Public housing developments
up
1. Simplify public engagements and 6. Release Comprehensive Development Areas 12. Make proactive and professional
Environmental Impact Assessment • Divide Comprehensive Development Areas into judgments during district consultations
procedures smaller sites according to size and ownership • Recognise the consultative functions of the
• Simplify and consolidate public engagement distribution District Council, and instruct departments to
under various ordinances • Establish precise and quantifiable approval criteria respond to relevant feedback with
• Broaden the definition of minor works to for Master Layout Plans professional judgment to proceed swiftly to
simplify land gazetting process 7. Enhance town planning procedure the next phase
• Shorten environmental survey and report • Shorten the time required for the town planning 13. Draw reference from the practice of the
production time, and define clear objectives procedure past Private Sector Participation Scheme
for each evaluation criteria
• Rationalise arrangements under the town planning to improve construction efficiency
2. Proceed with reclamation works and procedure • State sizes and quantities of residential units
town planning procedure simultaneously 8. Accelerate urban redevelopment in tender documents
• Divide development projects into reclamation • Introduce measures to accelerate private • The Housing Authority or Hong Kong
and superstructure development for redevelopment projects, such as lowering the Housing Society can randomly select some
reclamation works and town planning threshold for compulsory sales, exploring the of the completed units for repurchase at a
procedure to proceed simultaneously transfer of plot ratio, raising plot ratio in some predetermined price
urban areas, street consolidation, and
3. Accelerate land assembly to unleash the interchangeability between residential and 14. Enhance transparency and
development potential of private lands nonresidential plot ratios accountability of public housing projects
• Study on various land assembly models • Reflect the corresponding changes in the Outline • Establish a “one-stop” platform to disclose
• Establish a new mechanism to unleash the Zoning Plan following the research by the Urban the progress of various public housing
development potential of Tso/Tong lands Renewal Authority, and adopt a more flexible projects
compensation strategy • Formulate public housing supply schedules
4. Commence detailed designs in all for the next 10 years
phases in parallel 9. Simplify land leases
• Begin land resumption and clearing works in • Exclude specific requisites if they are already
advance covered in relevant regulations or overseen by
• Adopt targeted measures for various other departments
occupiers to smoothen the resumption 10. Accelerate lease modification procedure
process
• Extend the use of “standard rates” to all lease
5. Appoint developers to build some modification applications for agricultural lands in
the New Territories
infrastructures to bring forward private
development projects scheduled for later • Establish a clear timeframe for reviewing and
approving lease modifications
phases
• Initiate land exchange procedures for private 11. Strengthen the functions of the Development
lands in the remaining phases during phase 1 Projects Facilitation Office
• Introduce an appropriate mechanism in land • Serve as a decision-making body that coordinates
exchange to entrust developers with road land development approval works and aptly
construction near private developments balance the requirements from different
departments
• Act as the first and only point of contact between
the Government and developer
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