• Encourage comprehensive development to allow more flexibility in layout and design
• Promote co-operation between adjacent lot owners to help upgrade overall cityscape

• Consider the relationship between building height and mountain backdrop so as to avoid breaching viewsheds 
• Create diversity and variety in building height profile for visual interest
• Consider plot ratio control for lowering building height
• Minimise adverse visual impact on the surroundings by stepping building height or setting back 
• Descend the building height to the waterfront, open space and countryside
• Avoid "pencil" towers or out-of-context "sore thumb" development

• Adopt innovative built form to establish an unique identity and character for a development
• Create diversity and variety in building mass to enhance visual interest

• Arrange disposition of building blocks / houses to avoid negative environmental impacts
• Orientate building blocks / houses to maximise privacy to residents
• Avoid "island sites" surrounded by roads
• Maximise residents' views without adversely affect public views
• Position building blocks / houses away from nuisance and bad neighbouring uses
• Consider micro-climatic effects

• Design with pedestrian priority
• Provide separated pedestrian routes
• Encourage at-grade pedestrian movement
• Provide "movement corridors" through development, e.g. pedestrian movement at podium level
• Improve micro-climate for pedestrian comfort 
• Ensure easy and direct access to public transport node
• Enhance street and neighbourhood surveillance for safe environment
• Provide landscaped pavements 
• Provide suitable street furniture
• Incorporate provisions for disabled persons circulation 
• Promote pedestrian linkages to urban fringe / rural areas

• Keep private vehicles to the periphery of the development
• Provide public transport facilities to minimise vehicles movement within the development
• Ensure the provision of emergency vehicular access
• Provide buffer against road noise
• Avoid through traffic
• Avoid deep penetration of roads
• Ensure legibility for motorists
• Reduce vehicle speeds within development by provision of speed bump, traffic calming measures, etc.
• Consider pedestrian safety

• Provide adequate parking
• Discourage on-street parking
• Create active edge for the facade of parking structure and disguise monotonous elevation
• Provide parking for disabled persons

• Meet the necessary open space and G/IC facilities requirements
• Maximise accessibility and usability of open space
• Fully utilise podium for open space uses
• Encourage linkages to urban fringe and rural areas

• Avoid adverse visual impact on hillsides with provision of more greening within developments
• Use subtle colour on elevations to avoid sharp contrast with natural backdrops 
• Screen with landscaping
• Minimise adverse visual impact of stilted structures

Impact on waterfront:

• Avoid negative visual impact on waterfront by variation in height and massing
• Provide public access to waterfront
• Respect sensitive waterfront amenity

Impact on natural setting:

• Connect landscape features to natural surroundings
• Consider more flexibility in architectural designs
• Provide tree planting to minimise building impact

Environmentally sensitive neighbourhood:

• Provide buffers between the development and sites of special scientific interest

Impact on adjacent rural areas: 

• Protect character of adjacent village
• Protect farmland and fish ponds
• Leave adequate buffer between the development and adjacent developments
• Respect local history and culture
• Avoiding large scale development mass
• Respect site context such as minimising slope cutting and clearance of natural vegetation

• Create a focal point of the development
• Adopt innovative building design or architectural imagery to establish a distinctive image for the development 
• Develop activity node

• Create a distinct neighbourhood identity 
• Define entrance and focal point
• Create a sense of belonging in the layout planning for residents

• Respond to existing layout patterns
• Respect the massing, style, colour and form of historic village in redevelopment. 
• Avoid infill development with incompatible architectural style in indigenous village core.

• Define entrance to village
• Accentuate focus to village
• Encourage historical and cultural awareness
• Consider landscape and visual issues 
• Screen refuse collection point with landscape

• Keep provision of road infrastructure to minimum and preserve village character and context as far as possible
• Locate carpark at entrance which can be designed as a village focus

• Perceive village as an entity and maintain the cohesive quality for the village
• Preserve unique character and features
• Maintain richness of design details of traditional houses