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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance
(Chapter 124)
SHA TIN NEW TOWN STAGE I, PHASE II DEVELOPMENT TRUNK SEWER TO AREA 4 SHA TIN, NEW TERRITORIES
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The Director of Public Works has recommended the acquisition of 5, 786.5 square metres (about 62, 286 square feet) of private agricul- tural land along the southern bank of the Shing Mun River in Area 28C, Sha Tin for the construction of a trunk sewer to Area 4, part of which is earmarked for a public housing estate. This sewer forms part of the Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works designed to provide a proper sewage disposal system to serve the New Town. This project is part of the Sha Tin New Town Stage I, Phase II Development and is included in Category 'A' of the Public Works Programme under Item NDE2(14). Engineering work on the Crown land portion will start in July 1977. Work on the private land is scheduled to start in February 1978 and will take some fifteen months to complete.
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The general location of the land to be resumed is shown. coloured orange on the Identification Plan at Annex A. The Secretary for the New Territories is satisfied that the private land involved is the minimum necessary to implement this project and estimates that the total cost of resumption and clearance will be about $1.21 million. Funds will be made available within the approved project estimate to meet this expenditure.
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The clearance will involve payment of compensation for crops, fruit trees, bamboos, wells, irrigation pipes and fences, as well as ex-gratia allowance to cultivators and ex-gratia disturbance allowance for pigeon-breeders. Payment of "Tun Fu" ceremonial fees will also be necessary.
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No private building land is involved. However, twelve (12) temporary structures, (nine (9) on Crown land and three (3) on private land) used solely for domestic purposes together with fifteen (15) other temporary structures, (four (4) on Crown land and eleven (11) on private land) used as workshops/dwellings or shops/dwellings and situated within the resumption/clearance limits will have to be cleared. These tem- porary structures are occupied by some forty (40) families comprising
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