Abstract
The increasing of development failure on highland urges the professionals to develop solution on mitigating the problems. This paper discusses on land development process and legislation on highland development in Malaysia and Hong Kong. This study is focus on land use planning, laws and regulations pertaining to land development process. Hence, this research is to review the current development process including mechanism and legislation pertaining land development on highland in Malaysia and Hong Kong. Hong Kong is chosen as an example based on the fact that for its successfulness in managing highland developments. The main aim of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of land development legislations and development approaches for highland development. This research reveals the effects and consequences of implementation regulations and development process on highland that have been used at Malaysia and Hong Kong. In Malaysia, land development process on highland is still in questionable; why present property laws and regulations are fail to achieve highland development standards as compared to Hong Kong. There are weaknesses that need to be overcome such as on the implementation and the intensity of the provision in property laws and regulation that can ensure the achievement of required land development process.
Highlights
In Malaysia, the planning and control of development of land uses is based from the various and sufficient legislations which provide strategies and approaches for development process
All the plans are referring to the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172) which based from the National Development Planning Framework that consist in three levels such as national, state and local level (Figure 1)
This paper has presented a review of the literature on the comprehensive study between Malaysia and Hong Kong
Summary
In Malaysia, the planning and control of development of land uses is based from the various and sufficient legislations which provide strategies and approaches for development process. It is to ensure living well-being whilst promoting economic growth and the creation of sustainable development areas. The development encroachment towards high land and steep slope area has created massive development issues which occur from ego disaster incidents such as landslide and debris fall. Those incidents causes lost of life and damaged to properties. The interviews will determine the fundamentals needs and mechanism land development on high land and steep slope areas
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