HKR proposes that members of the public shall have full access to the open space at Areas 6f and 10b. The Town Planning Board should pay due attention to the relevant provisions under the Land Grant and the DMC when considering these proposals.
If the proposals for provision of public open space are approved, the TPB should set out clear conditions specifying that HKR and HKR alone shall be responsible for all maintenance and management of the public areas. This is the established practice in DB, and must be maintained in all future developments. Continue reading Public Playground→
During the first round of public consultation on the Area 6f proposals, the topic that attracted the greatest number of objections was HKR’s proposal to use the brick roadway at the Woods as the main access route to the new tower blocks.
The submissions pointed out that Parkvale owners have been paying for maintenance of this roadway for the past 28 years. Therefore, the road must be Village Common Area, and HKR has no right to provide access through Parkvale to Area 6f.
HKR is highly dismissive of comments from owners and residents on the 6f and 10b applications in its latest Town Planning Board (TPB) submissions. It ignored most comments, and relegated the few that it chose to address to an appendix at the back. Even then, it resorted to half-truths and slight-of-hand in its replies.
Hong Kong Resort Company Limited (HKR) has responded to comments made by government departments and the public, and the Town Planning Board (TPB) has set a new deadline of 15 July, 2016 for additional public comments on the proposals. The proposals will now be heard at the TPB meeting on 26 August, 2016.
As before, if substantive comments are submitted, HKR will be required to respond and the hearing date will be delayed once more.
3D Artist’s Impression of the Area 10b Re-development, from the HKR Submission to the TPB
All submissions for Area 10b have now been uploaded. While the number of submissions in support of the proposals outnumber those opposed, even a cursory glance reveals that supporters have submitted multiple similar entries under slightly different names. for example:
500 Mr. Barndon, wai-lun WANG
501 Mr. Brandon Wang
502 Mr. Brandon WANG
503 Mr. WANG, wai-lun
1137 Mr. Joey Yu
1138 Mr. Joe Yu
1142 Mr. Joey Yu
1143 Mr. Yu Cho Yan
1144 Mr. Yu Cho Yan Joe
1147 Mr. Yu Cho Yan Joey
Mr. Kenneth Kwong, from CM’s Works Department, deserves a prize for being the very first person to submit an entry, in support of the proposal. Is he related to the Mr. Kenneth who submitted #76 and the Mr. Kwong who submitted #77, we may wonder.
The proposal was scheduled to be heard on Friday, 13 May. However, a request was made for the hearing to be deferred to an unnamed later date, and the request was granted by the Town Planning Board. You may request to be informed of the rescheduled hearing date, when available, by writing to tpbpd@pland.gov.hk.
Detail from the Parkvale Village VOC submission to the TPB
All Area 6f submissions have now been uploaded!
A total of 2,256 comments were submitted for the proposed Area 6f development behind Parkvale Village, while a total of 2,148 were submitted for Area 10b, the Service Area at Peninsula Village.
Our District Councillor, Ms. Amy Yung, organised a Town Hall Meeting on on 3 April to discuss the proposals to amend the Discovery Bay Outline Zoning Plan submitted by Hong Kong Resort Company Limited. Below are links to relevant documents presented at the meeting.
The following are the supporting documents to show that the brick roadway in front of the Woods at Parkvale Village is private to the owners and tenants of Parkvale Village. HKR has no right under the Deed of Mutual Covenant and Sub-Deed of Mutual Covenant for Parkvale Village to open this brick roadway for use by future residents of Area 6f.
