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(b) they recommended that seven of these
possible sites be rejected because of the unsuitability of the terrain or for environmental reasons;
(c) the interested Secretariat Branches and
Government departments considered the remaining six sites. A site at Tolo harbour was climinated because it involved flying over Shatin and Tai Po; one at Cheung Chau was unsuitable because of the difficulties involved in access by land. Nin Wan was unsuitable because to avoid flying over Chinese territory would involve a significant limitation on the capacity of the airport. The possibilities were narrowed down to two potential situs - one off the west coast of Lamma island and the other partially on Chek Lap Kok island off the north-west coast of Lantau;
(a)
the Civil Aviation Department found the Lamma site to involve too many drawbacks in the form of adverse wind conditions, a lack of sites for instrumental landing aids, and technical problems related to the
configuration of the runway. The proximity of busy shipping lanes would also have made surface access particularly difficult. Part of the site is now being used by the Hongkong Electric Company for its new power station.
Site investigations from March 1974 onwards were therefore concentrated on the Chek Lap Kok site, and the original Consultants' Final Report (see para. 4 above) considered only Chek Lap Kok as a possible site for a replacement airport. The Aviation Advisory Board, in May 1975, advised that planning should continue to establish further the feasibility of the constructing and operating of the proposed airport at Chek Lap Kok.
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establish
(a)
The Government then started investigations to
whether the inevitable traffic build-up in the West Kowloon Corridor resulting from the removal of the airport from Kai Tak to Chek Lap Kok could be adequately accommodated; and
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