The Land, Public Works and Transport Bureau (DSSOPT) said it is gradually initiating procedures to declare the invalidity of land concessions for twelve idle plots located in Seac Pai Van, Ka-Ho of Coloane and Ilha Verde of Macau peninsula. These twelve land plots are of the city’s 65 idle plots – of which landholders were perceived not the liable party for the delay in land use by the authorities in 2011. However, according to the DSSOPT’s official data, the conditional land concessions of these twelve plots have expired in 2013 and 2014. ‘According to the Land Law, temporary land concession cannot be renewed. The government will thus reclaim these plots based on the law,’ the Bureau said in an e-mail to Business Daily’s enquiry on whether the government is in the process of taking back these plots. The Bureau added that the twelve land plots would be considered using for building public housing if their conditions are appropriate. Currently, the city’s Land Law regulates that a temporary or conditional land concession, which carries a validity of 25 years, can only become effective when the property project of a site is completed and is issued an occupation permit. Otherwise, they will have to be taken back by the government. These 12 plots, carrying a combined size of over 64,000 square metres, were first granted to landholders by the Portuguese administration of Macau in 1988 and 1989.
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