Contents
Preface to the Third Edition ix
Preface to the Second Edition x
Preface to the First Edition xi
1 The Importance of Use and Change in Use 1
2 Dual Development Control under the Land Lease and Statutory Town Plan 7
3 What Is a Use? 12
4 Change in Use and Development Control under the Land Lease, Town Plans and the Buildings Ordinance 21
5 The Need for Making a Planning Application to Enable a Change in Use under the Town Planning Ordinance 27
6 'Temporary Uses' and 'Existing Uses' on Private Land under a Statutory Town Plan 30
7 The Possibility of Making a Planning Application and Steps in Checking Whether a Use Requires Planning Permission 33
8 The Relationship among Lease Modifications, Planning Permissions and Building Permissions in the
Development Cycle 36
9 Planning Applications, Reviews and Appeals 55
10 Lease Modifications and Waivers 61
11 Building Applications and Appeals 68
12 Enforcement of Leases, Town Planning Ordinance and Buildings Ordinance 77
13 Development Blight 84
14 Information Regarding Leases, Statutory Town Plans and Building Plans 85
15 Problem Sets 87
Appendices
Appendix 1: Town Planning Board Guidelines (as at 21 April2016) 103
Appendix 2: Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications 1975-2015 106
Appendix 3: Application Tree Diagrams of 380 Comprehensive Development Area Projects,
January 1990-December 2015 195
Appendix 4: Probit and Logit Estimates of Non-Aggregate Statistics Regarding Planning Applications 208
Appendix 5: Changes to Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers (PNAPs) since 2010 260
References 262
Index 273