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ONG KONG Housing Authority's Ping Shek Estate, Kowloon, originally designed to include 400 ft. high circular apartment blocks of 50 storeys, is now to be developed to a new plan providing for five square tower blocks each of 28 storeys.
The new scheme has reached an ad- vanced stage of planning. A contract for piling work was let last month to Gammon (Hong Kong) Ltd. and ten- ders for the main construction work are due to be submitted this month.
Estimated to cost about HK$46,- 300,000, the new Ping Shek Estate will be located adjacent to the Au- thority's Choi Hung Estate at the junction of Clear Water Bay Road and Kwun Tong Road. It will house some 29,000 people in 4,570 flats.
The grant of land for the project has recently been approved by the Hong Kong Government which will
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also lend the Authority HK$30_mil- lion from the Development Loan Fund to meet part of the construction cost; the balance will be found from the Authority's own resources.
Under the new plan for the 161⁄2 acre site, each of the five 28-storey blocks will have 27 floors of domes- tic flats with the ground floor used as covered play space or for kinder- garten, shops and other community activities.
In addition, there will be two low blocks, each seven storeys high, with the roofs used as play areas.
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the majority of the 60 shops will be located, arranged around a two-level plaza, or town square, together with a group of stalls for the sale of fruit and vegetables.
To the south of the plaza and at a lower level will be a large recrea- tion area of almost 31⁄2 acres bound- ed by four of the tower blocks, In all, the scheme will have about eight acres of open space, inaccessible to and unobstructed by traffic, including a hillside adventure playground as well as the more formal and regular children's play areas.
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