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About Planning Department









            Planning System




            We prepare development strategies at the territorial level and various types of statutory and
            departmental plans at the district/local level.  In preparing these plans, reference will be made
            to the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines (HKPSG).



            Territorial Development Strategy


            The formulation of territorial development strategy aims to provide a broad territorial planning
            framework to guide future development and provision of strategic infrastructure and serves as
            a basis for the planning of major development nodes and the preparation of district plans.  The
            “Hong Kong 2030+: Towards a Planning Vision and Strategy Transcending 2030” (“Hong Kong
            2030+”) promulgated in October 2021 set out a strategic spatial planning framework for the
            future planning, land and infrastructure development as well as the shaping of the built and

            natural environment of Hong Kong beyond 2030.


            Statutory Plans


            The Department assists TPB to prepare statutory plans in the form of outline zoning plans and
            development permission area plans under TPO.  These statutory plans have the following main
            functions:
               •  regulating development through specifying the types of permitted land uses and

                development parameters on individual parcels of land;
               •  reserving land for various types of uses; and
               •  undertaking enforcement and prosecution actions against unauthorised developments in
                the rural New Territories.



            Departmental Plans

            The departmental plans in the form of outline development plans and layout plans show more
            detailed level of planning parameters.



            Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines (HKPSG)

            Various bureaux and departments will formulate, review and amend the respective planning
            standards and guidelines in a timely manner in order to provide guidance and reference on a

            range of issues regarding urban development.  We will assist the bureaux and departments in
            this regard, and compile and promulgate HKPSG.

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