I have now added a number of Supplementary Master Plans (SMPs) to the menu at the left, directly under the Master Plans.

As described in the Director of Audit Report, these show the detail of the development on the Lot. But they do much more. Together with the Master Plans, they control the development on the Lot. DB is the only development in Hong Kong where there is no limit or control on development in the lease.

The Audit Report highlights that the cable car system that was supposed to have been installed in DB was removed in one of the early SMPs, thus removing the obligation to provide the cable car under the lease. (This happened after the first owners had moved in to DB, and surely must be one of the very few times that the Government has permitted a change to the lease conditions after a DMC had been executed.)

Of the SMPs included here, the most interesting is the one for DB Plaza (Area 9a). This is the only official documentation that I know of that shows the location of the Public Recreational Facilities in Area 9a, including the Recreation Deck, the North Promenade, the Seafront Plaza and the South Promenade.

As you will note, the PRF are detailed very clearly. The tables on the SMP even record how the PRF were re-allocated over time. Given this level of detail, I find it quite surprising that the Director of Audit would state in his report that: “As the Lands D had no record of the specific replacement public  recreational facilities provided by Developer A, it asked Developer A to provide details of the facilities” (emphasis added).

The SMP is dated 24 April, 1997, while the Director of Audit asked Lands Department for confirmation of the PRF in June 2002. Was there no one left in Lands Department who knew about the SMP for Area 9a and the important role that it played?

Certainly, the SMP has never been updated since 1997, in contrast to the careful record of changes maintained throughout the 1990s.

Siena 1 SMP is also interesting as it shows the development concept for DB before the Disneyland project was given the go-ahead. With Disneyland, a restrictive covenant was imposed on DB limiting building heights over much of the Lot and also limiting development in the upland areas. As a result, the next phases of development will all take place at DB North near the tunnel, as detailed in MP 7.0E.