The Government has compromised in its mixed-development pilot scheme in a bid to calm developers' concerns about the problems of incorporating private and subsidised housing under one roof.
Under a new arrangement, developers will have more flexibility in designing and building the projects.
They will have a completely free hand in the development of 40 per cent of the project in terms of floor area, but there will be restrictions on the remaining 60 per cent. Half will be randomly selected and handed over for sale under the Home Ownership Scheme.
The original plan was for the Government to choose 30 per cent of the whole project, which would have restricted developers' building designs.
Developers had expressed severe reservations over the original concept because they feared that mixing private and subsidising housing could pose a problem by making people on different income levels live under one roof.
Henderson Land Development's Augustine Wong Ho-ming said it would study making a bid for the Ap Lei Chau mixed-development site which opens for tender today.