Introduction

	Introduction > Background
	The Chief Executive (CE)’s 2007-2008 Policy Address highlighted revitalization as the guiding principle of heritage conservation and the Project was among one of the specific proposals put forward by the CE in the same Policy Address. At the meeting of the Executive Council (ExCo) on 15 July 2008, the ExCo advised and the CE ordered that Government should enter into a partnership with the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) in the form of an agreement (or agreements) to take forward the conservation and revitalization of the Central Police Station (CPS) (hereafter “the Project”) based on various guiding parameters. ERM-Hong Kong Ltd (ERM) has been commissioned by the Jockey Club CPS Limited (“the CPS Ltd”) to undertake the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Study in accordance with the EIA Study Brief (No. ESB-205/2009) issued under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO). The cultural heritage impact assessment was prepared by the conservation architect Purcell Miller Tritton LLP.