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The Chief Executive in Council has approved the draft Sai Ying Pun & Sheung Wan Outline Zoning Plan (OZP).
"The approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide development and redevelopment within the Sai Ying Pun and Sheung Wan area," a spokesman for the Town Planning Board said today (December 24).
Covering an area of about 146 hectares, the Planning Scheme Area is bounded by Hill Road to the West; Bonham Road and Caine Road to the south; Jubilee Street, Pottinger Street, D'Aguilar Street and Glenealy to the east; and Victoria Harbour to the north.
About 35 hectares of land, in particular those areas along both sides of Des Voeux Road West and to the south of Des Voeux Road Central, are zoned "Commercial/Residential". Some 24 hectares in the south of Queen's Road West and Hollywood Road is zoned "Residential (Group A)".
About 0.2 hectare in U Lam Terrace and Wa In Fong without direct vehicular access is zoned "Residential (Group C)" with a maximum domestic plot ratio of five and building height of 12 storeys in view of inadequate access for servicing and emergency purposes.
Some two hectares, including two completed Land Development Corporation (LDC) developments, namely "The Grand Millennium Plaza" and "The Center" near the Sheung Wan Mass Transit Railway Station, and "The Centrium" at Wyndham Street, are zoned "Commercial".
A number of sites, totaling about 14 hectares, are zoned "Government, Institution or Community" ("GIC"). Major GIC uses within this zoning include the Western District Police Station, Western Magistracy, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Tsan Yuk Hospital, Tung Wah Hospital, Central Sewage Screening Plant, Sheung Wan Civic Centre and Man Mo Temple. The former Old Mental Hospital site at High Street has been redeveloped for a district community hall cum social welfare complex.
About 13 hectares are zoned "Open Space". Existing major open spaces include Blake Garden, King George V Memorial Park and Hollywood Road Garden. A waterfront site with an area of about eight hectares on Western Reclamation has been reserved for the development of a district open space, the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park.
About 12 hectares are zoned "Other Specified Uses". They include the Western District Public Cargo Working Area, the Western Wholesale Market, a tram depot, a liquefied petroleum gas filling station, a ventilation building serving the Western Harbour Crossing, the Central Police Station, Victoria Prison and the former Central Magistracy Compound.
Meanwhile, three sites at Peel Street/Graham Street, First Street/Second Street and Staunton Street/Wing Lee Street, totaling 1.3 hectares, are under the LDC/Urban Renewal Authority Development Scheme Plans for redevelopment for commercial/residential uses with public open space, GIC facilities or other ancillary facilities.
The approved Sai Ying Pun & Sheung Wan OZP No. S/H3/20 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, Hong Kong;
* Hong Kong District Planning Office, 14th Floor, North Point Government Offices; and
* Central and Western District Office, Ground Floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong.
Copies of the plan 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.
Ends/Wednesday, December 24, 2003
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