The Development Bureau announced today (8th) that the Development (Town Planning, Land and Works) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2022 will be gazetted on Friday (9th). Various measures in the draft will play a key role in accelerating land supply , the time for general projects to change from "raw land" to "studied land" for building houses will be reduced from at least six years to four years, and large-scale projects such as new development areas will be greatly reduced from 13 years to seven years.
The Development Bureau pointed out that the draft covers urban planning, land resumption, reclamation, road and railway engineering and other statutory amendments related to development, so as to compress the development timetable and speed up land creation to respond to the society's ardent demand for land and housing.
200 hectares of brownfields will be acquired in the next four years The government will announce a list of resettlement land next year: it can be transferred to agricultural land. Environmental groups in land conservation districts urge land resumption to reclaim brownfields and face relocation difficulties Ning Hanhao: Some operators find it difficult to move into brownfields in industrial buildings｜Yuen Long and Hung Shui Kiu multi-storey industrial buildings are expected to be completed in 2027.
