Public Forum: Mechanisms to Unleash Development Potential of Privately Owned Land in the New Territories

Date: 18-Aug-2018

Time: 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 419, Knowles Building, Pokfulam Road, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Due to various land management and historical problems, development rights of more than 4,000 ha privately owned land in the New Territories have been held up in the past decades. This public forum aims to explore some possible fair and transparent mechanisms to unleash the development potentials in the New Territories.

Registration

https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=58892

Videos

Invited speakers and participants will discuss, inter alia, two institutional innovations namely “land readjustment” and “land bonds”. Comments received in the public forum will form an integral part of a report to be submitted to the Task Force on Land Supply.

Speakers

Sr Tony T. N. Chan
Member of Executive Committee
Heung Yee Kuk N.T.

Prof. K. W. Chau
Head and Chair Professor of Department of Real Estate and Construction &
Director of the University of Hong Kong Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research

Mr. Donald W. H. Choi
Chief Executive Officer
Chinachem Group

Professor S. H. Goo
Professor
Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong

Prof. Jimmy C.F. Leung
Adjunct Professor
Department of Geography & Resource Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Albert C. H. So
Managing Director
Albert So Surveyors Ltd.

Prof. Erwin Van der Krabben
Professor
Department of Planning, Radboud University, &
Honorary Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design,
The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Edward C. Y. Yiu
Founder
Real Estate Development Building Research & Information Centre

All are welcome. For enquiries, please call 2859 2146 or email rccprr@hku.hk