Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui (Site C1)

Area (Plan C1) : “R(A) ” Zone 2014^ (in ha) (about) 0.52 No. of Private Industrial Buildings : 201 4^ Occupied 4 Wholly vacant - Under renovation - Tot al 4 ^ Survey undertaken in May 2014.

Details of Private Industrial Buildings

Total No. of Private Industrial Buildings : 4 Total No. of Units Involved : 211 Total GFA* Involved (about) : 69,555m2

No. of Units Successfully Surveyed : 202 (95.7%) Total GFA* Successfully Surveyed (about) : 67,835m2 (97.5%)

No. of Buildings Wholly Under Occupied Tot al vacant renovation No. of Storeys 1 - 7 storeys - - - - 8 - 19 storeys 3 - - 3 20 storeys or above 1 - - 1 Land Ownership (as at end June 2014) Single - - - - Multiple 4 - - 4 Building Age (as at end March 2014) < 15 years - - - - 15 – 29 years - - - - 30 years or above 4 - - 4 Building Condition Good - - - - Fair 3 - - 3 Poor 1 - - 1

Surrounding Land Uses : Residential and commercial developments, government, institution and community uses (including public swimming pool), and open spaces.

* Conversion factor from internal floor area to gross floor area is 1.3333.

Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui “R(A)” Area 1

Vacancy Rate (based on GFA*)

PlanD’s Area Assessments “R(A)” Zone Survey in 2013-14 Territorial 10.2% Hong Kong Island 13.7% Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui 12.6%# # Survey undertaken in May 2014.

Derived from R&VD’s Raw Data “R(A)” Zone 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Territorial 4.2% 3.0% 6.5% 9.7% 4.3% 5.6% Hong Kong Island 3.5% 3.1% 9.0% 19.1% 7.7% 8.0% Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui 1.7% 1.1% 8.3% 19.8% 6.9% 6.6%

Tak e-up (derived from R&VD’s raw data and based on BD’s Monthly Digests) “R(A)” Zone 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Territorial (m2)* 3,888 -10,915 -11,736 17,801 -15,224 Hong Kong Island (m2)* 360 -4,639 -10,829 10,618 -11,403 Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui (m2)* 360 -4,639 -10,550 10,340 -10,932

Subdivision of Units Types of Units Units GFA* No. % m2 % Non-subdivided Units 181 85.8 59,616 85.7 Subdivided Units# 30 14.2 9,939 14.3 Total 211 69,555 # All 30 subdivided units were divided into two to five subunits each.

Predominant Uses Survey in 2014^ GFA* (m2) % Manufacturing/Workshop 4,136 5.9 Warehouse/Storage 38,400 55.2 Office 10,691 15.4 Others# 5,659 8.1 Vacant 8,781 12.6 Under Renovation 169 0.2 Non-response 1,719 2.5 Total 69,555 ^ Survey undertaken in May 2014. # The other uses identified in the 2014 survey were recreational facilities, shop and services, showroom and wholesale centre, taking up about 2.7%, 2.4%, 2.0% and 0.9% of the GFA respectively.

* Conversion factor from internal floor area to gross floor area is 1.3333.

Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui “R(A)” Area 2

Business Nature and No. of Workers in Occupied Non-subdivided Units Business Nature Occupied GFA* No. of Workers Non-subdivided Units No. % m2 % No. % Manufacturing# 22 15.0 10,333 20.7 78 22.2 Non-manufacturing^ 125 85.0 39,598 79.3 274 77.8 Total 147 49,931 352 # The largest manufacturing business is manufacturing of basic metals, fabricated metal products (except machinery and equipment) and other non-metallic mineral products (in terms of both number of units and GFA) (based on the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification Version 2.0 adopted by the Census and Statistics Department). ^ The largest non-manufacturing business is import/export, wholesale and retail trades (in terms of both number of units and GFA) (based on the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification Version 2.0 adopted by the Census and Statistics Department).

Area Assessment

The subject area (about 0.5 ha) involves four private industrial buildings, two in Kennedy Town and two in Shek Tong Tsui. All four buildings are located in area mixed with existing residential and commercial developments.

All four industrial buildings are under multiple ownership and 30 years old or above. They are between 13 and 24 storeys. Three of them are in fair condition, while the remaining one is in poor condition.

The overall vacancy rate of the area is about 12.6%, which is relatively higher than the territorial figure of 10.2% for all “R(A)” areas, but slightly lower than the average of 13.7% for the two areas on Hong Kong Island. About 14.2% of the units were divided into subunits, involving about 14.3% of the GFA. About 55.2% of the GFA is for Warehouse/Storage use, to be followed by Office use (about 15.4%). “Other Uses” take up about 8.1% of the GFA, including recreational facilities (about 2.7%), shop and services (about 2.4%), showroom (about 2.0%) and wholesale centre (about 0.9%). Manufacturing/Workshop use occupies about 5.9% of the GFA.

In terms of employment, about 352 workers are estimated to be engaged in the occupied non-subdivided units of the industrial buildings in the area, including about 78 workers (22.2%) in the manufacturing business and about 274 workers (77.8%) in the non-manufacturing business. The overall figure only accounts for about 0.1% of the total of 360,718 persons engaged (other than those in the civil service) in various business/industries in the Central and Western District identified by C&SD in June 2014.

The industrial building at 12P Smithfield Road was one of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA)’s industrial building redevelopment pilot scheme projects. However, all concerned owners had objected to the redevelopment by the URA and had confirmed their intention to redevelop the site themselves. Upon URA’s recommendation, the Secretary for Development subsequently declined to authorise URA to proceed with the project in 2013.

* Conversion factor from internal floor area to gross floor area is 1.3333.

Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui “R(A)” Area 3

The industrial building at 38 Belcher Street is subject to two building plan approvals for residential/commercial development (approved in April and July 2010) (Plan C1).

Noting that the area is largely mixed with the existing residential and commercial developments in the surroundings and the concerned industrial buildings have a relatively higher vacancy rate, the area could be retained as “R(A)” to continue facilitating the redevelopment for residential use which would reduce the I/R interface problems.

Recommendation

To retain the area as “R(A)”.

* Conversion factor from internal floor area to gross floor area is 1.3333.

Kennedy Town/Shek Tong Tsui “R(A)” Area 4

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Land Use Plan PLANNING DEPARTMENT Proposed Developments with Building Plans Approved (as at 4.2014) Kennedy Town / Shek Tong Tsui Plan No. M/HOLS/15/28 Source* : Survey undertaken by PlanD (as at 5.2014) Plan C1 OZP Nos. S/H1/19, S/H3/29 and S/H11/15 SCALE 1 : 5 000 Date : 21.7.2015 Source : Land Ownership recorded from Registry (as at 6.2014)

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