Objections received
SERIAL NUMBER & DATE
1
NEW TERRITORIES CIRCULAR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
AU TAU TO FAN KAM ROAD PHASE 3 FAIRVIEW PARK TO MAI PO (PART)
SECTIONS FROM POK WAI TO SHEUNG SAN WAI AND FROM
YAU MEI SAN TSUEN TO WAI TSAI
26.8.86, 3.9.86 & 6.1.87
NAME OF OBJECTOR
BRIEF
DESCRIPTION
OF OBJECTION
HyD's
INTERPRETATION OF VALIDITY
HyD's COMMENTS
AND WHETHER
SCHEME SHOULD BE AMENDED
CLARIFICATION FROM OBJECTORS REQUIRED
WHETHER LEGAL
ADVICE
Mr CHAN Chu-tin & Mrs CHAN CHU Wai-fong
The objectors requested Government to avoid resumption of their restaurant and to resume adjacent agricultural land for the road works. Other than bringing an end to the operation of the restaurant which they had invested heavily, the livelihood of over ten employees and their departments would also be affected.
The restaurant and the adjacent land are affected. The objectors' further request on the retention of the fruit trees cannot be met as the majority of the trees are growing on Government Land and that further enlarging the boundaries for the objectors' restaurant will render the contractor's Works Area extremely difficult to be utilized.
Because of the close proximity of the future trunk road to the restaurant building (3.8 m), it is considered highly undesirable from environmental point of view that the restaurant should remain in its present position. However, strictly from an engineering view point, the restaurant can be preserved by construction of a retaining wall. On financial aspects, the additional cost for provision of
the retaining wall is $0.3M, whereas the cost of resumption will amount to $1.0M. As the existing access will be truncated, a new one will be re-provisioned to connect the restaurant to Castle Peak Road. The objectors have been informed of the proposed modifications. However, although they have promised to send in another letter for withdrawal of their objection and further requesting for various items of compensation, no letter has been received even after various consultations and discussions.
REQUIRED
WHETHER CONSULT-
ATION WITH OTHER
DEPARTMENTS REQUIRED
No
Yes. This has been carried out with DO/YL & DLO/YL.