For the List of Design Codes and general
design considerations, please refer to Section 2 of the Approval-in-Principle Submission for Landscape Works (AIPLW) in Appendix A.
In Section 14.3.3.2 of the approved EIA
report and Section 14.2.4 of the EM&A Manual, design measures are proposed
as landscape and visual mitigation measures during detailed design stage. These mitigation measures are considered and
will be adopted as far as practicable.
These design measures are listed below:
·
Roadside
planting and planting along the edge of the reclamation is proposed
·
Transplanting
of mature trees in good health and amenity value where appropriate and
reinstatement of areas disturbed during construction by compensatory
hydro-seeding and planting
·
Protection
measures for the trees to be retained during construction activities
·
Optimizing
the sizes and spacing of the bridge columns
·
Fine-tuning
the location of the bridge columns to avoid visually-sensitive locations
·
Aesthetic
design of the bridge form and its structural elements for HKLR, e.g. parapet, soffit, columns, lightings and so on
·
Considering
the decorative urban design elements for HKLR, e.g.
decorative road lightings
·
Maximizing
new tree, shrub and other vegetation planting to compensate tree felled and vegetation
removed
·
Providing
planting area around peripheral of HKLR and HKBCF for tree planting screening
effect
·
For
HKLR, providing aesthetic design on the viaduct, tunnel portals, atgrade roads and reclamation (e.g.
subtle colour tone and slim form for viaduct to
minimize the bulkiness of the structure and to blend the viaduct better with
the background environment, featured form of tunnel portals, roadside planting
along at-grade roads and landscape berm on & planting along edge of
reclamation area) to beautify the HKLR alignment