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TELNO OTTER 6
OF 05020OZ JANUARY 90
HKC182
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
1990
DESK OFFICER
NULA
FOR ADAMS. HEAD OF PEP FROM HEAP
REGISTRY
Acton İz.
YOUR TELNO OTTER 262 OF 22 DECEMBER: AIRPORT PROJECT
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1. YOU WILL DOUBTLESS LET ME KNOW WHEN FLETCHER AND BALLARD PLAN TO COME AND WHETHER YOU WANT ME TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS. I HAVE WARNED MRS ANSON CHAN THAT THEY ARE LIKELY TO BE COMING AND WILL WANT A
MEETING WITH HER.
2. AT A MEETING WITH LOK, DIRECTOR OF CIVIL AVIATION, ON 4 JANUARY HE AGREED TO LET ME HAVE A COPY OF THE UKCAA STUDY. HE SAID THE MOST CONFIDENTIAL AREA, WHICH HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RELEASE, RELATED TO RISKS AT KAI TAK AS TRAFFIC DENSITY INCREASES, BUT I SAID THIS WOULD BE OF LITTLE INTEREST AND THAT OUR CONCERN WAS THE STUDIES ON RUNWAY ALIGNMENT THE NEW AIRPORT ETC. HE PROMISED TO SEND THIS TO ME VERY SHORTLY. FROM HIS REACTIONS I JUDGED IT WOULD BE PUSHING MY LUCK TO ASK THAT THE MATERIAL BE RELEASED TO YOU IN THE UK. I WILL OF COURSE FORWARD IT AS SOON AS IT IS RECEIVED.
3.
LOK TOLD ME THAT THEY HOPED TO PICK THE CONSULTANTS FROM THE MASTER PLAN FROM THE SHORT LIST OF EIGHT BY MARCH, AND THAT THE CHOSEN FIRM WOULD START IN MAY. WITHIN 3 MONTHS THEY HOPED TO HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THEM ON RUNWAY ALIGNMENT AND RUNWAY SEPARATION. THERE WERE DIVIDED CAMPS IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, AND EXCO HAD RECENTLY DISCUSSED AT LENGTH, THE QUESTION OF RUNWAY SEPARATION. THERE WAS NOW A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT THAT THE RUNWAYS SHOULD BE 1300 METRES APART ALLOWING THE TERMINAL TO BE PLACED BETWEEN THEM. THIS HOWEVER WOULD BE MUCH MORE COSTLY AND WOULD INVOLVE SUBSTANTIALLY MORE RECLAMATION. THEY ALSO WANTED AN EARLY DECISION ON WHETHER THE TERMINAL SHOULD BE LINEAR (THEREBY ALLOWING GOOD RAIL ACCESS) OR FANSHAPED WITH SATELLITES. THE UKCAA STUDIES HAD COVERED MUCH OF THIS AREA BUT SOME THINGS HAD CHANGED AND THE YET TO BE APPOINTED CONSULTANTS WOULD MAKE THEIR OWN
RECOMMENDATIONS.
LOK SAID NO FURTHER CONTRACTS WERE EXPECTED TO BE AWARDED AFTER THE MASTER PLAN CONSULTANCY PROBABLY UNTIL CERTAIN CIVIL
4.
ENGINEERING CONTRACTS IN EARLY 1991. HOWEVER SOME CIVIL ENGINEERING
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