Draft Yuen Long Outline Zoning Plan approved
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"The approved OZP provides a statutory land use planning framework to guide the development and redevelopment within the Yuen Long area," a spokesman for the Town Planning Board said today (December 17).
The planning scheme area, covering about 561 hectares, is bounded by the outer edge of Yuen Long Industrial Estate in the north, Yuen Long Highway in the south, the Yuen Long Kau Hui group of villages in the east and Long Tin Road in the west.
Yuen Long contains a wide variety of existing land uses which include arable land mainly in the south, high-rise commercial and residential developments in the Yuen Long Town proper and industrial developments in the north. Yuen Long New Town is one of the major centres for the provision of commercial and community facilities in the North West New Territories.
The approved OZP has incorporated amendments shown on the draft Yuen Long OZP No. S/YL/24, which mainly involved the rezoning of a site from "Government, Institution or Community" ("G/IC") to "G/IC(6)" with stipulation of maximum building height restriction for a proposed social welfare service complex cum youth hostel development, rezoning of two sites from "Open Space" to "Other Specified Uses" annotated "Art Storage and Public Open Space" and "Village Type Development" to facilitate the development of an art storage with public open space provision and a New Territories Exempted House respectively, and rezoning of various sites to reflect existing residential developments and the as-built conditions.
Opportunity is also taken to amend the Notes and Explanatory Statement of the OZP to reflect the above amendments and to update the general information of various land use zonings and the planning circumstances, where appropriate.
The approved Yuen Long OZP No. S/YL/25 is available for public inspection during office hours at (i) the Secretariat of the Town Planning Board, (ii) the Planning Enquiry Counters, (iii) the Tuen Mun and Yuen Long West District Planning Office, (iv) the Yuen Long District Office, (v) the Ping Shan Rural Committee and (vi) the Shap Pat Heung Rural Committee.
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 OZP can be viewed on the Town Planning Board's website (www.info.gov.hk/tpb).
Ends/Friday, December 17, 2021
Issued at HKT 16:00
Issued at HKT 16:00
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