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is based upon a strategy which places the town centre and
all the residential sites in the north east of the island, nearest to Tsuen Wan, and the industrial sites in the south and the west, well separated by the intervening land
features the hills.
The siting of potentially hazardous
installations on the western side of Tsing Yi is not
incompatible with the residential uses on the east, and
these competing demands are reconcilable as long as we are
satisfied that the PHIS do not pose any significant danger
Mr. S.c. to the inhabitants. As D Lai is probably aware, the Government is undertaking an updating of the Review on
PHIS on Tsing Yi, to look at where we now stand and to address specifically the question of the so-called
cumulative effects on traffic and so on. Until the
results of this review are known, and Government has taken
these installations a view on these, future applications for PCs will not be
processed.