Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) released our study on brownfield development strategy in response to the “Shortlisted Brownfield Clusters for Public Housing Development (First Phase)” published by the Planning Department earlier this year. Among the eight brownfield clusters proposed by the Government, while we found the Ping Shan North Cluster is under better conditions, the other seven clusters will encounter major obstacles in future development, including limited site area, underdeveloped local road network and need to relocate existing occupiers, thus they are unlikely to supply housing units in the short run. 

Thus, OHKF urges the government to consider the recommendations offered in the “Strategic Land Development for Jobs: From Brownfields to Modern Logistics” report published in July this year, to develop large-scale integrated operations nodes in multiple transport strategic locations to resettle and consolidate existing brownfield operations, and build up land reserve for the future development of our priority industries.