This is just one of several surveys commissioned by BoL necessary for a potential future re-application of the changing Baroque project.
Having lost the first round in the TPB last Dec, as expected they haven't given up.
Just a little more background and info about the archeological survey this summer:
The announcement of the survey in the "Blog of Baroque":
http://www.bol-hk.com/template?series=32&article=407
The application to Govt. for the archeological survey, with maps, are on the LivingLamma site:
More Developer activity in South Lamma.
Plus a "Letter to the Editor" in the SCMP last week. The letter is signed off as "Martin Bode, Wanchai", but Martin also lives in Mo Tat Wan with a great view over South Lamma from his rooftop, so he might be able to tell us more about the survey in progress in his neighbourhood. Maybe Damon could keep us informed as well, plus other Mo Tat Wan residents, I hope!
"Lamma faces renewed threat
Christine Loh has got it right again - nature is one of Hong Kong's greatest assets ("Nature's riches", July 13).
So why are government departments allowing plans for the despoliation of South Lamma to rise from the dead? In support of Baroque on Lamma, an "environmental consultancy" wants to drill and excavate more than 40 sites there in the coming months for an "archaeological survey" bizarrely authorised by the Antiquities and Monuments Office.
The Town Planning Department rejected the entire Baroque on Lamma development proposal in December 2011; 50 per cent of the digging and drilling will be done on public land zoned conservation area and coastal protection area, according to documents provided by the Lands Department.
Is the Town Planning Department decision irrelevant for other departments? Can zoning regulations issued by one department be disregarded by another? An original concept of "planning process" indeed.
Martin Bode, Wan Chai"