Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom

22 Aug 2012

The Town Planning Board is appealing against a court judgment that could have far-reaching implications for the city's rules to limit the height of buildings.

'Unfinished' village estate gets nod

8 May 2012

Village housing developments with government approval do not necessarily provide buyers with basic infrastructure such as a proper access road and power supply, an investigation by the South China...

letters

3 Apr 2012

Illegal developments must be stopped

'Use idle sites to ease land shortage'

9 Mar 2012

An independent lobby group of professionals is urging the government to first develop underused and polluted rural sites - which together make up an area equivalent to half of the Kowloon...

Lamma island marina bid is thrown out

17 Dec 2011

A bold development plan in an ecologically sensitive part of Lamma Island was rejected yesterday by town planners, who feared its approval would set an undesirable precedent.

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Planners start crackdown on rural cheats

Planning chiefs have announced two measures to plug a loophole in the town planning system that has long been criticised for rewarding a 'destroy first, build later' approach by rural landowners...

Battle to protect our country parks

The 54 pockets of private land that lie within or near our pristine country parks are a headache that authorities are on the verge of doing something about.

Henderson Land criticised over wetlands site

Henderson Land Development has not submitted a wetland restoration programme to the government for its luxury housing project on an ecologically sensitive site in Yuen Long, although it has...

Henderson seeks review on wetland area plan

Henderson Land is testing the resolve of the government's planning advisers again, seeking a review of its decision not to allow the developer more time to start work on its 14-year-old housing...

Henderson may be out of time on wetlands

Henderson Land's controversial and drawn-out plan to turn the wetlands of Nam Sang Wai into a luxury housing development looks doomed, at least in its present form.

Grey areas the battleground in NT fight

The third in a four-part series on the environmental damage caused by rampant illegal development in the New Territories and how the public is playing an increasingly major role in combating it...