|
Key Issues & Constraints |
Opportunities |
| Land Use Planning |
- Proliferation of open storage yards, warehouses, workshops and industrial uses
|
- Review the land uses of the degraded brownfield land to improve the local environment
|
- Abandoned agricultural land and livestock farms
|
- Optimise development potential of degraded brownfield and abandoned land for beneficial uses
|
- Environmental,
traffic, localised
flooding, fire
safety and
industrial/residential
interface problems
|
|
Existing Villages & Residential Developments |
- Low-rise
residential
developments and
non-indigenous
villages within the
PDAs
|
- Give due
consideration to
existing
residential
communities and
local
character
|
- Other
residential
communities to the
immediate
surroundings of the
PDAs
|
|
Environment |
- Potential
environmental
problems and land
contamination from
roads, industrial
operations and
livestock farms
|
- Address
environmental
problems
|
- Preserve natural
landscape,
ecological and
cultural heritage
resources and
explore recreational
uses
|
- Create
sustainable and livable communities
|
|
Traffic |
- Lack of
direct external
access
|
- Enhance road capacity of and linkage
of the PDAs with Yuen Long
Highway
|
- Limited capacity
of Yuen Long Highway
|
- Improve
local roads with
possible
beautification of
Yuen Long Nullah
|
- Narrow and
sub-standard local
roads with limited
space for pedestrian
and road widening
|
- Provide
pedestrian
facilities
|
|
Drainage and Sewerage |
- Limited capacity of the existing drainage and
sewerage systems
|
- Improve
capacity of the
local infrastructure
|
- Compliance with
Deep Bay zero
discharge
requirement
|
- Enhance
aesthetic
attractiveness of
the nullahs
|
|
Cavities |
- Presence of
marble-bearing rocks
and complicated
structural
conditions
|
- Undertake ground
investigation works
with appropriate
building designs
|
|
Land Ownership |
- Multiple and
complicated land
ownership
|
- Examine
appropriate
implementation
mechanisms
|
|
|
- Presence of
graves within the
PDAs
|
|
Planning &
Urban
Design Context |
- Lack of
integration with
Yuen Long New Town
|
- Determine
appropriate
development
intensity and urban
design
|
- Set in among the
high and
medium-density Yuen
Long New Town, the
natural backdrop of
the Country Park,
and surrounded by
village settlements
and low-rise
residential
developments
|
- Provide
visual linkage to
the Country Park
|
- Explore
potential landscape
enhancement
|
- Enhance
integration with
Yuen Long New Town
and the proposed
Hung Shui Kiu New
Development Area
|
