The Planning Department's hopes for formulating an office property development strategy to 2011 suffered a setback when its survey was greeted by a weak private sector response.
To date, less than one third of the polled companies have responded to the survey, which began last month.
The department plans to interview 3,000 companies in Hong Kong about factors which influence their decisions on office locations.
Seventeen hundred office users in the central business district and 1,300 users in non-core business centres were scheduled to be interviewed.
The department also intends to conduct interviews with 89 government departments about the possibility of relocating to fringe commercial areas.
Doreen Chan Yim-chi, senior town planner of the Planning Department, said members of management or property owners were prime interview subjects.
However, many of those contacted were either out of town for business or on vacation, she said.
