ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the increasingly significant role which the institutional framework - specifically the legal and financial mechanisms, policy environment and organisational arrangements - has exercised on land-use and transport planning in Hong Kong. The role of the public sector - of central and local government and of publicly owned development agencies - is pivotal to the land development process and provision of transport infrastructure and services throughout the developed and developing world. The chapter also examines the evolution of the government role in land and transport infrastructure development in the territory. Land-use and transport planning in Hong Kong is principally the responsibility of government. Policy and resources for planning and transport are controlled by the branches of the Secretariat, specifically by the Chief Secretary, Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, the Secretary for Works and the Secretary for Transport.
