Lawrence Wai–ch Lai – författare

This book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town planning in Hong Kong.

Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for professionals in real estate development in Hong Kong. This third edition provides an account of the concepts of the use and change in use of land, followed by an outline of the procedures for lease modifications and waivers, planning applications, reviews and appeals, and building applications and appeals. It also includes an overview of government enforcement against contravention of lease conditions, provisions of statutory town plans prepared under the Town Planning Ordinance, and provisions of the Buildings Ordinance. For practitioners and policy analysts, the detailed appendices in the book offer vital statistical information on both aggregate and nonaggregate development applications. In this new edition, the list of Town Planning Board guidelines has been updated to 2016, and the tables on success rates of planning applications and reviews for key zones have been updated to December 2015. Additional information on planning applications has been included.Two new appendices have also been added: one on the planning history of all 380 developmental projects under Comprehensive Development Area Zoning from 1990 to 2015 and another on the "Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers" (PNAPs).

The author combines the unique multidisciplinary backgrounds of an academic, a political scientist, a lawyer and an urban planner to provide the reader with a novel and challenging discussion about the economic nature of land use zoning. Besides establishing a coherent framework for zoning based on the Coasian property rights paradigm, the book offers the reader several up-to-date case studies, including the government role in assigning exclusive property rights via marine fish culture zoning in Hong Kong.

This is an introduction to professional people and policy makers who are eager to under the logic of economics and its versatile applications. It is a user-friendly text which is devoid of higher mathematics but provides a convenient guide to Coasian transaction cost-based institutional economics.

Professor Lawrence Lai reports in this book further planning appeal cases, as a sequel to his pioneering attempt (1999) to systematically document and compare the first generation of decisions made by the Appeal Board under the Town Planning Ordinance (Chapter 131, Laws of Hong Kong).