Response to Consultation Paper: Strengthening Waste Reduction: Is Waste Charging an Option? Submitted to the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) 9 April 2012 Background Living Lamma is a registered society, which exists to clean up the environment and lobby for sensitive design of public projects on Lamma Island. Lamma has chronic waste problems – the bin areas […]
Read More »Response to CEDD’s Stage 1 Public Engagement Exercise on: Enhancing Land Supply Strategy – Reclamation outside Victoria Harbour and Rock Cavern Development Living Lamma promotes environmental improvement and sustainable development on Lamma Island. Our group currently has more than 300 members and many more supporters in the community. We would like to respond to the […]
Read More »Thank you as a member of the Development Panel of LegCo for taking the time to read this brief, but vital document before you consider the CEDD/PlanD proposal before you. We acknowledge there is a need for housing (in particular public housing), but also that its delivery needs to be logical, reasonable, economically and sustainably […]
Read More »PROPOSAL FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF YUNG SHUE WAN FERRY PIER Presented to HKKF, the Commissioner for Transport and the Commissioner for Tourism Background Lamma Island is well known as a place of natural beauty, an escape from the concrete jungle of the city. In the last few years, however, residents have witnessed a deterioration in […]
Read More »Meeting with Mr. Chan, Village Head, Tung O, South Lamma Monday 9th January, 2012 Preliminary Report Background South Lamma is an area of outstanding natural beauty and historical interest in Hong Kong. The area is zoned for agriculture, conservation and coastal protection. There are two sites of special scientific interest. The last known nesting ground for […]
Read More »Notes prepared for meeting with Mike Rowse, Home Affairs Department re. CEDD plans for Lamma Quarry Thank you as a member of the Development Panel of LegCo for taking the time to read this brief, but vital document before you consider the CEDD/PlanD proposal before you. We acknowledge there is a need for housing (in […]
Read More »TPB Meeting Notes After a meeting that lasted more than 3 hours this afternoon, the decision was “We’ll let you know.” Observers spent most of the time wondering if the translators were making mistakes, or if what they were hearing really was absurd, and trying to figure out who was speaking as the quality of […]
Read More »Director of Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Department 27th Floor, Southorn Centre, 130, Hennessy Road, Wanchai eiaocomment@epd.gov.hk 27th June 2011 Re: Planning and Engineering Study on Future Land Use at Ex-Lamma Quarry Area at Sok Kwu Wan,Lamma Island – Feasibility Study We are writing to object to the scope of the “Planning and Engineering Study on […]
Read More »Living Lamma’s response to the Director of Environmental Protection on the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Baroque on Lamma as part of the consultation process. Report Reference 0116093 – ESB229/2011 The Baroque on Lamma: Project Profile June 2011 The developer of the Baroque on Lamma, BoL Limited, has submitted further information to the Environmental Protection […]
Read More »Living Lamma’s submission to ERM on the social impact assessment for the Baroque on Lamma (Planning application Y/I-LI/1) Presented on 22nd June 2011 at the “Social Impact Assessment Workshop” organised by ERM Limited and held at the Tai Yuen Seafood Restaurant, 15 First Street, Sok Kwu Wan Cc: The Town Planning Board Preamble Living Lamma […]
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