Some good news, on the 16th December, the Town Planning Board finally rejected the application for the Baroque on Lamma project. A victory for many different groups and individuals. Special thanks to Jo Wilson and Living Lamma for all their hard work.

We have put together an email list that contains all of the Official members of the TPB and some of the unofficial members.

We would like as many people as possible to send in objections directly to the members.  The following list of email addresses can be copied and pasted into your email "TO:" or "BCC:"

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A suggested content for the email to send could be:

"

Dear Town Planning Board member

With reference to application Y/I-LI/1.

I am writing to you to implore you to reject the application by Agile Property holding and King Wong Development to develop the beautiful South Lamma area into a huge luxury property development. 

South Lamma is a countryside area that is for all Hong Kong people not for a luxury marina and property development.  The area is known not to be suitable for boating, with strong winds currents and the busiest shipping channel in Hong Kong. It is home to protected species, indigenous to Hong Kong.  This development would alienate a large area of public land and seabed in an area recognized and enjoyed by the public for its conservation values, without any road or public transport access.

Hong Kong has ample man made shorelines with road access, good public transport, but which are entirely devoid of facilities supporting marine based leisure and water sports.  Development of marine and waters sports facilities should be restricted to areas without wider intrinsic value and away from conservation areas, important to internationally protected species, such as Romer's Tree Frog and the Green Sea turtle.

Please reject application Y/I-LI/1.   Hong Kong is a better place with South Lamma remaining as it is."

Living Seas Hong Kong has objected to the plan (plan details can be found HERE)  We have also being copied on many objections sent in.  Here are a few samples:

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「勃勃海洋」及「世界自然基金會」於今年七月二十八日為本港漁民聯合舉辦了第二次替代生計研討會。

On the 28^th July 2011 Living Seas Hong Kong and WWF Hong Kong organized a second alternative livelihood workshop for fishermen in Hong Kong.

這次研討會的目的，是希望在禁止拖網捕魚法案通過後，為本港捕魚業介紹有關替代生計的前景展望。同樣重要的是，我們還邀請了各個海洋相關行業的代表出席會議，分享他們對海洋相關產業未來發展的想法和意見。這些代表來自以下行業：

This workshop was aimed to get perspectives from the fishing community to alternative livelihoods options after the trawling ban comes into place.   Also importantly we invited representatives from various marine related businesses to present their ideas and thoughts about further development in the marine sector.   Representatives came from :

1. Recreational diving 
   休閒潛水
2. Marine eco tourism
   海洋生態旅遊
3. Aquaculture
   水產飬殖
4. Shipping
   航運
5. Recreational fishing
   休閒垂釣及
6. Marinas
   遊艇會

出席者還包括立法會議員(漁農界)黃容根先生、香港漁民團體聯會副主席何俊賢先生及區議員Paul Zimmerman先生等。

Also in attendance was Hon Wong Yung Kan (Legco rep for Agriculture and Fisheries), Stephen Ho (Vice Chair - Hong Kong Fishermen Consortium) and Paul Zimmerman (District Councillor)

在歷時三個半小時的研討會上，與會代表在坦誠的氣氛下各舒己見，正面地提出了不同的意見和建議。最後，會議歸納出一份向政府提出的優先處理事項及跟進行動建議清單。我們將於短期內把有關建議提交政府相關部門。

The 3.5 hour workshop was an open discussion where different representatives of the community were able to voice their perspectives openly.   All attendees were positive with many different ideas voiced.   The final conclusion was a list of prioritized preferences and follow-up action points, for the government and other agencies, as well as a strong plead to continue to work together.  We intend to present these to the government authorities soon.

這次研討會的成果遠超預期。會議是整個社區踏出的非常正面的一步，它不僅讓漁民獲得可持續發展的替代生計，並且確保禁止拖網捕魚可以為香港整體帶來最大的利益。

The workshop hugely exceeded our expectations and is a very positive step toward a community wide effort to not only secure fishermen's ongoing livelihood options but also to ensure that the ban on trawling achieves the maximum potential benefit for the whole of Hong Kong.

Onwards and upwards….