Lands Administration Office
Lands Department

Practice Note
Issue No.  5 /2002

Processing Time for
Master Layout Plan, General Building Plan and Landscaping Plan

	Following the implementation of the centralization of processing master layout plan/general building plan (BC III cases) by this department, it has been decided that the processing time of various types of submission will be revised as follows with a view to speeding up the approval of the various submissions under the lease conditions :

	Previous Processing Days #
             (PN No.)                a	
Revised Processing Days #	
			
Master Layout Plan			
			
	BC III Cases	within 12 weeks
(PN 2/94)	within 10 weeks	
			
	Non-BC III Cases ^	Ditto	within 8 weeks	
			
General Building Plan			
			
	BC III Cases	within 15 weeks
(PN 1/94)	within 10 weeks	
			
	Non-BC III Cases ^	Ditto	within 8 weeks	
			
Landscaping Plan ^	within 12 weeks
(PN 3/94)	within 8 weeks	

		(Patrick L C Lau)
		Director of Lands
		3 June 2002

#	The processing time is counted from the date of valid receipt of submission (i.e. no outstanding information required to be submitted by the AP) to the date of giving approval/disapproval by the appropriate District Lands Office.

^	Non-BC III cases including Zone I straight forward cases, normal industrial/godown cases, normal electricity substation cases, hoarding plans, site formation plans, landscaping plans, drainage proposals and NT exempted houses.