Last year's Policy Address proposed the development of the "Northern Metropolitan Area" and a review of the Deep Bay Wetland and Wetland Buffer Zone to free up land for development.
Sun Hung Kai Properties recently took the lead in applying to the Town Planning Board to "open up" the wetland buffer zone at Tam Mei, Nam Sang Wai, Yuen Long, and develop nearly 10,000 residential units on a large scale together with the land on the border. the first large-scale development project application.
Changchun Society, which has been following up on wetland development, said that the ecological impact assessment submitted by SHKP for the development of the same site several years ago revealed that the site overlaps with the flight paths of the endangered black-faced spoonbill and other winter migratory birds, questioning the developer’s ecological value. The development of wetland buffer zones on the grounds that they are low is a serious underestimate of the impact on the ecology, and this time the development density is far higher than the previous scale. I worry that once the application is approved, it will set a bad precedent.
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The plot ratio is 2.25 higher than the Tin Shui Wai Wetland Park project
Wu Xiwen, the public affairs manager of the Changchun Society, said that the wetland buffer zone and border area in Nanshengwei had received many applications for rezoning in the past year, describing the area as a "new town".
However, the special feature of this application is that the proposed development density is extremely high, with a plot ratio of 2.25 times, far exceeding 1.5 times that of the large-scale project Wetland Season Park in Tin Shui Wai. I worry that once the application is approved, it will set a good precedent for other developers "Follow the trend" to develop wetland frontiers with high density.
Wu Xiwen, public affairs manager of Changchun Society.
(File photo/Photo by Zheng Zifeng)
Sun Hung Kai Properties stated in the application document that the ecological value of the wetland buffer zone involved in this development is very low to extremely low, but Wu Xiwen quoted that the same site was selected for the construction of large outlet malls and hotels several years ago. The impact report states that seven endangered black-faced spoonbills have been recorded flying past the application site, and their flight paths overlap with the proposed development site, questioning SHKP's serious underestimation of the proposed development's impact on the habitat and flight of black-faced spoonbills and other winter migratory birds The impact of the route, the current development plan is far more than a few years ago, it is worried that the impact on migratory birds will be greater, and the most serious development will further damage the wetlands, causing developers to further step into the wetlands.
According to the plan of the application, one-third of the land involved has been leveled, and a Tanwei Fangcang shelter has been built.
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As for SHKP's statement that it will allocate 2.8 hectares of land to build a "wetland restoration area" in the project, he believes that the group has not explained the restoration plan and long-term management details. Birds, it may be for a period of time, but do you have a long-term plan to ensure that the wetlands can be better managed.”
He worries that the so-called restoration area will only be reduced to "landscape decoration" and lose its proper ecological function.
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Wu criticized that the government announced in the "Policy Address" that it would "surge" on green belts and wetlands to release land for development. In addition to the "Northern Metropolitan Area" plan, he criticized the proposal to target the land in the Deep Bay Wetland area, describing the development of "good news" for developers, so developers will now start to do
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