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Appendix 3

Statistics of Enforcement and Prosecution Actions

Undertaken in 2017

In 2017, the Central Enforcement and Prosecution Section of the Department
investigated a total of 1 836 suspected unauthorised developments (UDs) in the

rural New Territories. Among these, 561 were confirmed to be UDs. After taking
enforcement and prosecution actions, 381 UDs (covering about 90 hectares of land)
were discontinued. Moreover, a total of 22 UD cases (covering about two hectares
of land) were regularised through the planning application system (Table 1).

Table 1 Number of Unauthorised Developments Discontinued or Regularised in 2017
after Enforcement Actions by Geographical District

No. of Discontinued Cases No. of Regularised Cases
Geographical District
(ha) (ha)

North West New 292 19
Territories (72.36) (2.15)

North East New 77 3
Territories (16.60) (0.14)
105
Sai Kung 8 ---
(0.78)

4
Islands ---
(0.70)

381 22
Total
(90.44) (2.29)

In 2017, enforcement actions were being taken against 552 UDs. The geographical

distribution of these UDs (with land area involved) by type is shown in Table 2
while Chart 1 indicates the percentage of UDs by type.

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