Clearance
Operations
As forecast last year, very considerable number of requests for clearance had to be curtailed during 1978/79 because of the need to work within housing quota or because clearances were deferred or cancelled at the request of client departments.
In 1979/80 the major clearances will be for the MTR extension to Tsuen Wan and for public housing sites in Kowloon. The figure is likely to drop a little due to the restrained Public Works Programme, but this will have the effect of increasing the demand for housing in the following years.
Squatter Workshops
Squatter industrial undertakings have featured prominently in clearance work in 1978/79, particularly in the Tsuen Wan area. A large number of industrial under- takings have been cleared in recent years, and a considerable number will have to be displaced in the years ahead. Approx. 80% of the squatter industrial undertakings are eligible for compensation on clearance; the remaining 20% are relative newcomers having not been recorded in the 1976 survey. of the 80% eligible undertakings, about 40% will be suitable for flatted factory type reprovisioning, and have a choice between cash compensation and Housing Authority flatted factory accommodation.
The Authority's new flatted factory construction programme will take about two years to catch up with the expected demand. As an interim measure, temporary industrial areas have been created to provide resite facilities for those undertakings which wish to remain in business until the new flatted factories are available.
Temporary Housing
other
Residents of post-1964 surveyed squatter structures are eligible only for temporary housing on clearance or аз a result of natural disasters; so too are several categories such as boat squatters, occupants of huts demolished during squatter control operations etc. target of temporary housing area space for 100,000 people will be achieved by 1980/81 and two years later most of them
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