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The Chief Executive in Council has approved the draft San Tin Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
According to a spokesman for the Town Planning Board (the Board), the approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide future development and redevelopment within the San Tin area.
The San Tin area, covering an area of about 740 hectares, is bounded by Tit Hang and Pak Shek Au in the east, San Tin Highway in the south, Mai Po San Tsuen in the west and Sham Chun River in the north.
The continuous and contiguous fish ponds to the south of Sham Chun River and to the east of Lok Ma Chau Control Point, covering an area of about 189 hectares are zoned "Conservation Area".
A large area of about 172 hectares stretching from the Lok Ma Chau Control Point to Lin Barn Tsuen and lying to the north of Yan Shau Wai is zoned "Other Specified Uses" annotated "Comprehensive Development and Wetland Enhancement Area" ("OU(CDWEA)") which provides incentives for comprehensive development and/or redevelopment with conservation objectives and positive measures to enhance the ecological value and functions of the existing fish ponds or wetland under a private-public partnership approach.
An area of about 17 hectares on the northern side of Castle Peak Road and to the north-east of Mai Po Lo Wai is zoned "Other Specified Uses" annotated "Comprehensive Development to include Wetland Restoration Area" which encourages the phasing out of open storage and port back-up uses and provides incentives for restoration of degraded wetlands adjoining existing fish ponds through comprehensive residential and/or recreational development with wetland restoration and buffer proposals.
An area of about 22 hectares to the west of Tsing Lung Tsuen is zoned "Residential (Group D)" for low-rise, low-density residential development and residential upgrading. The village areas around Castle Peak Road - San Tin Section and to the east of Lok Ma Chau Road are zoned "Village Type Development" to accommodate village type developments and to cater for village expansion.
An area of about 18 hectares to the north-east of Tung Chan Wai adjoining San Sham Road and in the close proximity to the Lok Ma Chau Control Point is zoned "OU(Service Stations)" to offer opportunities for development of service stations to facilitate cross-boundary trading activities.
The existing Lok Ma Chau Sub-divisional Police Station, the Lok Ma Chau Control Point and its expansion area, and the police post at Ngau Kok Shan are zoned "Government, Institution or Community". The area to the east of Mai Po Lo Wai, and the hilly area at Tai Law Hau and its foothills surrounding Pun Uk Tsuen and Chau Tau are zoned "Green Belt".
An area of about 26 hectares to the east of San Sham Road is zoned "Undetermined" for the proposed Sheung Shui to Lok Ma Chau Spur Line and West Rail (Phase II).
The approved San Tin OZP No. S/YL-ST/5 is now available for public inspection at the Secretariat of the Town Planning Board, the Tuen Mun and Yuen Long District Planning Office, the Yuen Long District Office and the San Tin Rural Committee.
Copies of the draft plan are available for sale at the Map Publications Centres in North Point and Yau Ma Tei.
End/Friday, May 10, 2002
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