31 Oct 1996
WONG WAN LEUNG AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT
- Citation
- WONG WAN LEUNG AND OTHERS v. SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT
- Court
- Lands Tribunal
- Case number
- LDMR7/1996
The Tribunal construed the 1905 Block Crown lease and its Schedule to hold the subject lots were not demised as agricultural/garden ground but as building land permitting houses as of right; the penultimate covenant is a building-approval covenant not a user covenant; accordingly compensation must be assessed on the basis of building land value and, on the available comparable evidence, the open market value at the date of resumption (17 March 1994) was $290,214.