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The Chief Executive in Council approved the draft Ngau Tam Mei Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
A spokesman for the Town Planning Board (TPB) said today (May 30) that the approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide development and redevelopment in the Ngau Tam Mei area.
The Planning Scheme Area, covering about 920.7 hectares, is bounded by Ki Lun Shan Au (Saddle Pass) in the east, San Tin Highway in the north and the west and Lam Tsuen Country Park in the south. According to the 2001 Census, the population of the area was around 4,600. The planned population for the area in 2016 is about 14,900.
Areas designated for residential developments are mainly found along San Tin Highway in the west and southwest. About 53.3 hectares are zoned Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) and intended for comprehensive residential development. The CDA site to the south of Tam Mei Barracks is intended to be developed as a local centre for the Ngau Tam Mei area.
Some 54.1 hectares are zoned Residential (Group C), intended for low-rise and low-density residential schemes with ancillary facilities. Provision is also made for about 27.3 hectares of Residential (Group D), intended for residential upgrading. Very low-rise and low-density residential development may be permitted on application to the TPB.
A total of 37.7 hectares is zoned Village Type Development, covering existing recognized villages and areas reserved for village expansion.
The Industrial (Group D) zone, covering about 7.9 hectares, is intended for upgrading or expanding the existing industrial uses.
Mainly concentrated in the north along San Tin Highway, about 91.8 hectares are zoned Open Storage to cater for the demand of land for open storage uses and to regularise existing open storage uses.
A site of about 0.5 hectare between San Tin Highway and San Tam Road is zoned Other Specified Uses, annotated Electricity Sub-Station, to cater for the development of an electric sub-station to meet local demand.
Two sites comprising about 11 hectares are designated Government, Institution or Community to reflect the existing livestock waste composting plant and Ngau Tam Mei Water Treatment Works.
A total of 43.1 hectares is zoned Recreation to provide for the development of active and passive recreational facilities.
The Green Belt zone of about 319.4 hectares, which covers foothills, lower hill slopes, spurs, isolated knolls, woodland or vegetated land, serves to define the limits of urban and suburban development areas by natural features.
The Conservation Area covering about 258.2 hectares serves to protect the hillslopes with ecological landscapes and topographic features at the southern and eastern portions of the area, as well as give added protection to the Lam Tsuen Country Park.
The approved Ngau Tam Mei OZP No. S/YL-NTM/8 is now available for public inspection during normal office hours at:
* Secretariat of the Town Planning Board, 15th Floor, North Point Government Offices, 333 Java Road, North Point;
* Tuen Mun & Yuen Long District Planning Office, 14th Floor, Shatin Government Offices, No. 1 Sheung Wo Che Road, Sha Tin;
* Yuen Long District Office, Yuen Long District Office Building, 269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long; and
* San Tin Rural Committee, 7 Main Road, San Tin, Yuen Long, New Territories.
Copies of the approved OZP are available for sale at the Map Publications Centres in North Point and Yau Ma Tei. The electronic version of the plan can be seen on the Town Planning Board's website at http://www.info.gov.hk/tpb.
End/Friday, May 30, 2003
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