House to be approved to be “three to one” construction period can be reduced for one year, the designated land management and planning are followed

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In recent years, the provision of short-term residential land supply has been mainly achieved through the redevelopment of land use. However, the development control parameters shared by the department under review have different definitions. The time to process the plans has become cumbersome and complicated, and has continued to speed up the supply. The construction industry was aware that the construction industry was aware that the Government had tried to “dismantle the walls” in just one month. In the past, the three departments had approved the area of ​​recreational facilities for private residential projects. The Lands Department and the Planning Department will now follow the standards Approved by the Buildings Department for approval. The industry expects the building construction period to be reduced by about one year to speed up the supply of buildings. The IGAD recognizes that it will play an integral role and further explore the rationalization and harmonization of the three departments’ approval criteria and technical definitions.

Under the regulations, each development project is required to comply with the statutory requirements of the Planning, Buildings and Land Administration System. However, the Planning Department, the Buildings Department and the Lands Department dealing with the approval procedures separately, coordination. It is said that the Lands Department officials have recently indicated to the trade through the Land and Construction Advisory Committee that the redevelopment facilities, such as clubs, swimming pools, green areas and playgrounds, will be processed in the future. The definition of the Buildings Department is approved. The source quoted officials as saying, “How can the Buildings Department define or how to grant a plan and the Lands Department will” take care “and follow the calculation method.

The recreational facility calculations have shown new standards

According to sources, recreational facilities in private residential projects have many opportunities to waive their floor area, but still need to set out the scope of exemption and to calculate the real area involved. “Even if the recreational facilities only account for construction projects A small part, but also to shorten the approval of the entire project also have some help, I believe the Government has begun to try to find out how to respond to the industry for many years.

Comprehensive industry sources, based on regulatory regulations and different categories, the three approval departments on the definition of common development parameters have been there are differences, mainly in the gross floor area (Gross Floor Area), site coverage (Site Coverage) and construction Height (Building Height) calculation; which, recreational facilities is one of the total floor area calculation project.

The Development Board has confirmed its efforts to speed up the approval process

A spokesman for the Development Bureau responded to the inquiry that the Lands Department had indeed had a job preparation as a standard for the approval of the area of ​​recreational facilities. However, the Lands Department and the Buildings Department were roughly the same in calculating the relevant area. In order to expedite the progress of the approval process. The Lands Department is now working with the trade to explore the feasibility of adopting the Buildings Department standard.

Lin Zheng election campaign has been related to the study

In his election campaign, he will ask the relevant approving department to study how to further speed up the approval process of land development, including harmonizing the technical definition and approval criteria of different departments as one of the short-term measures to develop the land. In this regard, the IGAD indicated that different departments had been listening to the views of the relevant sectors and, where feasible, committed to simplifying and expediting the approval process. The spokesman acknowledged that the Development Bureau would play an integrated role in strengthening the work of the concerned parties , To explore the three departments were adopted by the approval criteria and technical definitions, those links can be straightened out and unified, is preparing the work.

During the campaign period, Mr Tse Wai-chuen, the think tank of the think tank, as the think tank of the policy consultant, said that the development period of the construction projects in Hong Kong had increased from three to four years to seven to eight years. Demolition of the wall “, the building construction period can be reduced by nine months to one year. However, he estimated that it would need to be cross-sectoral and even cross-border. Participants should also join the industry representatives who have been “falling off”. The individual construction areas can only narrow the blurred areas and make it difficult to fully harmonize the technical definitions.