Lawmakers and conservationists are up in arms over a move by officials to commission the not-for-profit Housing Society to study the feasibility of building flats on the fringes of country parks, criticising the move as an attempt to bypass legislative scrutiny over what has long been a lightning rod for controversy.
“To try to circumvent Legco once again by getting its peripheral institutions to carry out policies that residents do not welcome is very frustrating and regrettable,”...
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