Abstract
In the next 15 years, there will be a rapid population growth in Hong Kong anticipated to be about 1.5 million people. It is a challenge for the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to find adequate land and to provide sufficient infrastructures to accommodate the increasing population while at the same time to keep up the environmental qualities. Owning to high demand for residential development, infrastructures, and other necessary facilities, it is not always possible to rely solely on buffer distance provided between noise-sensitive developments and noisy highways to avoid noise problems even for a piece of virgin land. To tackle the problems, due consideration needs to be given to minimize the potential noise impacts at the earliest planning stage when studying the alignments of highways. This paper presents the application of the above approaches in the planning of a 500 ha site.
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