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

• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9789888754441
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

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).

Table of contents

• 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 of 21 April 2016)
• APPENDIX 2: Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications 1975–2015
• APPENDIX 3: Application Tree Diagrams of 380 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