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Policy Address
- Over the past three years, the Town Planning Board has approved 57 planning applications for residential development. Among them, two applications involved sites identified in the last round of review of industrial land for residential use. The other 55 applications involve a total of 130 hectares of land and are estimated to provide over 45 000 flats when the projects are implemented. The Government will, in the interests of the public, expedite the administrative approval procedures and take other corresponding measures so that these flats are made available as soon as possible; and
- We will develop the former Diamond Hill Squatter Areas (Tai Hom Village), former Cha Kwo Ling Kaolin Mine, former Lamma Quarry and Anderson Road Quarry, which do not involve land resumption. In order to expedite these four development projects, we will actively consider making use of private developers' capacity for development in providing infrastructure and ancillary facilities, and construction of public and private residential units on these sites. The four projects together are estimated to provide about 27 hectares of residential land for the construction of about 15 000 units.
74. The major sources of land for housing are land sale by the Government, sites earmarked for public housing development, redevelopment of public housing, private redevelopment projects, URA projects, and railway property development projects. The 10 measures just mentioned will increase and accelerate housing land supply. Seven of these measures already will make available over 300 hectares of land for housing, providing about 128 700 units in the short to medium term based on known developments.
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