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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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