Read the full judgment text of HCAL 393/2024 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 March 2025.
1. The Applicants are brothers and indigenous villagers with the entitlement to apply for permission to erect a ‘New Territories Exempted House’(“NTEH”). Having found and purchased two adjoining lots of land, the Applicants applied for new planning permissions to erect the NTEHs. However, the Town Planning Board (“TPB”) rejected that application, and that decision was upheld by the decision (“Decision”) of the Town Planning Appeals Board (“TPAB”).