Change in Use of Land : A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong, Third Edition / Lawrence Wai-chung Lai, Daniel Chi-wing Ho, Hing-fung Leung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lai, Lawrence Wai-chung, Author.

Ho, Daniel Chi-wing, Author.

Leung, Hing-fung, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.) : 4 b&w illus.

Edition:

3rd edition

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for professionals in real estate development in Hong Kong. This third edition provides an account of the concepts of the use and change in use of land, followed by an outline of the procedures for lease modifications and waivers, planning applications, reviews and appeals, and building applications and appeals. It also includes an overview of government enforcement against contravention of lease conditions, provisions of statutory town plans prepared under the Town Planning Ordinance, and provisions of the Buildings Ordinance. For practitioners and policy analysts, the detailed appendices in the book offer vital statistical information on both aggregate and non-aggregate development applications. In this new edition, the list of Town Planning Board guidelines has been updated to 2016, and the tables on success rates of planning applications and reviews for key zones have been updated to December 2015. Additional information on planning applications has been included. Two new appendices have also been added: one on the planning history of all 380 developmental projects under Comprehensive Development Area Zoning from 1990 to 2015 and another on the “Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers” (PNAPs).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. The Importance of Use and Change in Use

2. Dual Development Control under the Land Lease and Statutory Town Plan

3. What Is a Use?

4. Change in Use and Development Control under the Land Lease, Town Plans and the Buildings Ordinance

5. The Need for Making a Planning Application to Enable a Change in Use under the Town Planning Ordinance

6. ‘Temporary Uses’ and ‘Existing Uses’ on Private Land under a Statutory Town Plan

7. The Possibility of Making a Planning Application and Steps in Checking Whether a Use Requires Planning Permission

8. The Relationship among Lease Modifications, Planning Permissions and Building Permissions in the Development Cycle

9. Planning Applications, Reviews and Appeals

10. Lease Modifications and Waivers

11. Building Applications and Appeals

12. Enforcement of Leases, Town Planning Ordinance and Buildings Ordinance

13. Development Blight

14. Information Regarding Leases, Statutory Town Plans and Building Plans

15. Problem Sets

Appendix 1: Town Planning Board Guidelines (as at 21 April 2016)

Appendix 2: Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications 1975–2015

Appendix 3: Application Tree Diagrams of Comprehensive Development Area Projects, January 1990–December 2015

Appendix 4: Probit and Logit Estimates of Non-Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications

Appendix 5: Changes to Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers (PNAPs) since 2010

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

988-8754-44-0

OCLC:

1586549098