2 Dec 2024
HONG KONG GOLF CLUB v. DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- Citation
- [2024] HKCFI 1279
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAL1258/2023
The approval dated 11 May 2023 is quashed: the Director unlawfully approved the EIA report because Additional Information that was to form part of the EIA report should have been subject to further public exhibition and ACE consideration; the Director failed to take into account materially relevant responses from the applicant Club; and the EIA report failed in multiple material respects to meet the Study Brief and Technical Memorandum (notably on potential OVTs, tree survey and compensation, hydrology and risk to Chinese Swamp Cypress, inadequacy of bat and moth surveys, and cultural heritag…