Private Development and Management of Public Open Spaces - on the Victoria Harbour Waterfront

If the developer is found to be in breach of a lease, the only POSPDs recourse the Lands Department has is to place an encumbrance against the lot in the Land POSPDs are built and maintained by private Registry, or to take back the land entirely. [...] This would give maintain a POSPD until the Government asks the developer the confidence to make the for it back provides the Government with investment while the LCSD would not have to easier recourse in case of mismanagement, worry about having to take over facilities it is the lack of any timeline in such clauses also not prepared to manage in the near future. [...] 6 7 1 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT 1.1 Opening Victoria Harbour’s academics, environmentalists, and community Coastline for Public Access groups,3 in 2004 the Government established the Harbourfront Enhancement Committee (HEC),4 Hong Kong is in the midst of a shift away from the predecessor to the current Harbourfront 5 using the waterfront for logistics and infrastructure Commission. [...] Said study, completed in 2003, set the goal of creating “maximum continuity” of The Harbour Planning Guidelines encourage the waterfront promenades around Victoria Harbour, development of land uses such as retail, dining, especially in the “inner harbour core”.1 leisure, culture, and tourism along with public open space along the harbourfront to promote In 2003, the Society for the Protection of t. [...] However, the Government continues to use the POSPD mechanism to provide Section 2 below will explain the emergence of the waterfront promenades attached to commercial vision and principles that the Government hopes developments.14 to achieve on the Victoria Harbour waterfront while placing them in an international context.