2024-04-25 28Hse Editor
"Eight options" entered the industry for 2 years, advocating the establishment of an inter-departmental team
The new year's "policy address" will be announced on the 14th of this month, and housing policies are expected to continue to be the top priority. Some members believe that public and private housing will experience faults in the next few years. However, the government has been slow to implement all the eight supply increase options proposed by the Land Supply Task Force at the end of 2018. Even the government’s high hopes for the pilot land sharing plan have zero applications. It is hoped that the policy address can expedite the promotion of various land-seeking and housing options, and believes that the government should review the development, housing, transportation and environmental protection government structure, improve mutual coordination and implementation, speed up the approval process, and abandon the previous thinking from the government perspective. Make policies based on goals. ■reporter Yan Lunle
The market generally predicts that there will still be a certain amount of housing supply in Hong Kong in the next two to three years, but after 2023, both public and private housing supply will experience a cliff-like decline. It should be understood that the current waiting time for public housing in general families is at least 5.5 years, and the annual supply of private housing is limited to more than 10,000 units, and property prices have risen year by year. People have become more and more difficult to get on the bus. This has become a source of social grievance in recent years. Private houses are in urgent need of replenishing land reserves, and increasing land supply can no longer be delayed.
However, looking through the information, even though a land supply task force was established a few years ago and a consensus was reached through the "Land Debate" that the eight priority research options were launched, they were all affected by the political environment and delayed. At the same time, the government is also subject to the shackles of the system and procedures of overlapping houses, and poor coordination among departments has caused many housing supply implementation time to be delayed for several decades.
Xie Weiquan: The goal is to increase housing supply
Member of Architecture, Surveying, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Tse Wai-quan criticized: "The government thinks that it is justThe supervisor, guards the system, regulates different parties, but in fact is also a facilitator, but I can't do a lot about it. "He gave an example of the pilot land sharing plan. The government's thinking is to "protect oneself more than consider whether the other party is interested." The landlord is not interested in the project. The plan was proposed in 2018. Since the application was accepted in May this year, there has not been a single application. It is believed that the government should promote the implementation of various policies while monitoring, and be goal-oriented.
He believes that the pilot land-sharing plan itself has more restrictions, such as the proportion of public-private housing, required assessment reports, development time limit, etc. Moreover, the proportion of public-private housing in today's society is also prone to politicization, with high risks but insufficient incentives. Angle may prefer to apply for self-development based on existing mechanisms. He bluntly said that many people in society only know how to discredit the cooperation between government and business, but ignore the role of developers as businessmen who also need to earn reasonable returns. "Some people will use different reasons to hinder the development of Hong Kong."
Xie Weiquan advocated that the new policy address should review and optimize the pilot plan for land sharing, otherwise the change will be delayed after a few years. He also suggested studying the feasibility of developing Guishan Island and making good use of the Ocean Park and surrounding land (such as Wong Chuk Hang Police College) for housing and other developments. He also pointed out that making good use of idle government land to increase the supply of transitional housing should not rely solely on the promotion of non-governmental organizations and the donation of land by private owners.
Zhang Qiaochu: Tomorrow Lantau should be promoted as soon as possible
Zhang Qiaochu, managing director of Hongliang Consulting and Evaluation, also believes that the most urgent task for the government is to implement the recommendations of the previous "Land Debate", such as speeding up the development of the Fanling Golf Course and setting up an inter-departmental supervision team to deal with it. He said: "Tomorrow, Lantau will have to push it in the long run, because it will take 15 to 20 years to implement housing supply, but if there is still no idea today, after 5 years, 15 or 20 years will become 25 years. , Then it will be more difficult to solve."
In response to the poor response to the pilot land-sharing plan, he suggested that the government can link the land-sharing plan with Lantau Tomorrow so that participants in the plan can gain corresponding advantages when developing Lantau tomorrow. In addition, he believes that it is necessary to restart the study on whether there is room for the development of the borders of country parks and reclamation outside the Victoria Harbour, and simplify the procedures for land application and development.
Zhang Shengdian: Announce the progress of land recovery in due course
Zhang Shengdian, executive director of Pujin Group and director of corporate development (valuation and property management), stated that the policy address should focus on how to implement the previous land supply plan and give the market a vision, and the relevant land sharing pilot plan, brownfields, and land resumption The progress of the regulations will also be announced. Recently, the development of civil service cooperatives has made progress. The URA may propose to the government to invoke the Land Resumption Ordinance to recover the title, and then make compensation in accordance with the Ordinance. The precedent can follow, and the government should also explain the next step.
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