23 Dec 1981
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHENG YICK CHI AND OTHERS
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHENG YICK CHI AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV91/1981
The Court held that for the purposes of Regulations 20-23 the unbuilt portion dedicated to public passage is included in the area of the site but, because a site cannot abut a street lying within its own boundaries, the combined properties constitute a Class A site abutting only Zetland Street; street-shadow calculations are made with reference to the building under Regulation 16 (not by reference to site class) and the declaration on street-shadow should omit the words "as for a class A site"; the Regulations contain a gap when a street lies within site boundaries and literal application wou…