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香港大學
香港薄扶林道
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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
University of Hong Kong,
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Tel. 5-468161 Ext. 421
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Expectations of Meeting with Mr. John Thompson,
held on Saturday, 6th., May 1978.
Alternative Choice for the Public re KCR Station/Cultural Complex.
While accepting that it is not everyone's desire to see the KCR Station Building preserved, the issue should not be seen only infisolation in respect of that 1916 Building. A real choice should be put before the public, and this might be (a) to recommend an alternative design be produced to include and incorporate the KCR Station Building in a new Cultural Complex, so that this can be compared with the Urban Council's design; or (b) a local/regional or international competition be held to invite designs to be submitted with the brief to include the preserved KCR Building in a new Cultural Complex.
The Heritage Society has repeatedly asked for a competition to be held, but this request has always been refused; on the grounds that there was not time.
Time for re-considering the Planning of Tsimshatsui Peninsula tip.
The present over-heated construction boom allows time for some re-consideration. It is still possible to complete a Cultural Complex by 1983; the move from a PWD Category B building contract into a Category A contract isonly about to take place. The Planetarium building is already under construction independent of the Theatre/Concert Hall part of the Complex.
The impact of the Transmark recommendations to link-up, by underground rail, the Hung Hom Railway Station with the Tsimshatsui Salisbury Road/Star Ferry concourse must be taken into consideration. Will it be under Salisbury Road,
and where will the access and exits be ?
Further, the Transmark line will have to go below, or above, the MTR line emerging from its cross-harbour tunnel to go north underneath Nathan Road. This intersection may or may not be part of an underground Salisbury Road station. These factors are most important for the planning of the area as about 5,000 to 7,000 people may be using the Cultural Complex in one evening when concerts and theatre performances are being held.
Finally, the future use of the Marine Police Station site, linked up with the Culture Complex, needs consideration. It is excluded from the Urban Council's plan and destined to be razed to the ground for another commercial- residential complex It seems illogical to destroy one hill when another, at the bottom of Chatham Road and containing a signal tower, is being restored as a pleasure garden.
Review of the Planning Legislation.
This seemed to be generally agreed so that more public participation may be provided for, and teeth given to the Antiquities and Monuments Board to be able to list buildings for protection first, and then to find a use for them afterwards. Declaring a monument is now solely within the Governor's powers, and no building is likely to be declared such because of the cost of maintenance. Hence the greater need to give more consideration to the 're- cyling' of the use of old buildings for new purposes.