Planning and Lands Matters

(A) Town Planning

• Policy
• Complaints, appeals, requests and petitions
  • Application of grant of site(s), for small house development, etc.
  • Land resumption
  • Land matters
  • Appeals under Section 17B of Town Planning Ordinance (Cap.131) concerning development proposals

(B) Lands: policy and procedures

• Land Sale Programme
• Land matter (such as land grants, land compensation and ex-gratia allowance)
• Register of potentially hazardous installations

(C) Buildings

• Ordinances and Bills
  • Building Ordinance (Application to the New Territories) Ordinance (Cap. 121)
  • Building Ordinance (Cap. 123)
  • Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128)
  • Land Registration (Amendment) Bill 2000
• Building Safety and Timely Maintenance
  • Comprehensive Strategy for Building Safety and Timely Maintenance
  • Coordinated Maintenance of Buildings Scheme
  • Comprehensive Building Safety Improvement Loan Scheme

(D) Urban Renewal

• The Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance (Cap. 563)
• URA Board - Membership
• Policy Guidelines - Urban Renewal Strategy
• Compensation Arrangements for Land Resumption
• Valuation Guidelines for Properties under Resumption
• Announced Development Schemes and Development Projects under the Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance (Cap. 563)

(E) Miscellaneous

• Boards and committees
  • Committee on Planning and Land Development (Terms of Reference and Membership only)
  • Land and Development Advisory Committee (Terms of Reference and Membership only)
• Policy responsibility for ventilating systems
• Exemption under the Hong Kong Airport (Control of Obstructions) Ordinance
• Public reclamation and works
• Departmental matters

(F) Administration and Resources Management

• General office administration
• Organisation and establishment
• Staff and personnel matters
• Estimates of expenditure (Recurrent and Capital accounts)
• Papers presented by the Development Bureau to Public works Sub-committee/Establishment Sub-committee/Finance Committee
• Replies to written questions by the Development Bureau in the context of the annual Special Finance Committee Meeting to examine the Budget

Works Matters

(A) Policy & Development

• Policy and administrative support on non-technical matters relating to policy objectives and the Public Works Programme
• Implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Construction Industry Review Committee
• Greening

(B) Heritage Conservation

• Declared monuments
• Graded historic buildings in Hong Kong
• Heritage conservation policy and initiatives
• Conservation and adaptive re-use of historic building projects
• Heritage conservation publicity programmes and newsletters

(C) Programme Management

• Quarterly Reports on Public Works Programme

(D) Infrastructure Coordination

• Housing-related projects
• Data on all works projects supplied by Departments
• Value Management

(E) Works Policy

• Works Policy
• Forms of contract
• Procurement of works
• Slope safety
• Environmental procedures
• Street excavations
• Legislation relating to works
• Industry review

(F) Technical Services

• A list of construction standards used in Hong Kong
• An English-Chinese glossary of terms commonly used in Hong Kong

(G) Professional Services

• Consultancy policy
• Contractors policy
• Construction industry resources (including labour and material)
• Resident site staff
• Works Digest
• WTO issues
• Promotion of professional services
• Helping business programme
• Consultancy and Contract Insurance
• Facilitating the communication and contact with the construction industry in other places including the Mainland

(H) Computer Services

• Departmental IT Plan for DEVB
• Computer inventory of DEVB
• Computer systems of DEVB
• Orders, tenders and contracts for computer systems of DEVB

(I) Safety

• Construction Site Safety Policy
• Construction Site Safety Manual
• Construction Site Safety Handbook
• Safety Initiatives

(J) Education and Training

• Guidelines on the management of in-service training assistance
• Vacation Training, Undergraduate Training and Graduate Training Schemes
• Guidelines on the assessment of non-local professional qualification for appointment
• Guides to Appointment

(K) Finance

• Financial Criteria for Retention on the List of Approved Contractors for Public Works and the List of Approved Suppliers of Materials and Specialist Contractors for Public Works

(L) Administration and Resources Management

• General office administration
• Organisation and establishment
• Resources planning and management
• Staff and personnel matters
• Estimates of expenditure (Recurrent and Capital accounts)
• Papers presented by the Development Bureau to Public works Sub-committee/Establishment Sub-committee/Finance Committee
• Replies to written questions by the Development Bureau in the context of the annual Special Finance Committee Meeting to examine the Budget