TY  - GEN
AU  - Lai, Lawrence Wai-chung & Others
TI  - Change in use of land : a practical guide to development in Hong Kong
SN  - 9789888390700
U1  - 333.70951 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Hong Kong
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  -  
N1  - 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

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