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Change in Use of Land 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).
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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
Appendices
Appendix 1: Town Planning Board Guidelines (as at 10 August 2009)
Appendix 2: Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications 1975–2008
Appendix 3: Probit and Logit Estimates of Non-Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications
References
Index
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Lawrence Wai-chung Lai is a professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction, the University of Hong Kong.
Daniel Chi-wing Ho is a professor and associate dean in the Faculty of Design and Environment at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong.
Hing-fung Leung is an associate professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction, the University of Hong Kong.
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"This book, with its wealth of information and applied nature, will fit very well as a textbook for students and a useful practice guide for practitioners." – Professor Edwin Hon-wan Chan, Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
