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As a contingency for times of tension, when there may be mobs in the street outside the building, consideration should be given to developing separate access to the building for consular cases. This might be through the main, Chancery/VIP entrance, through the ancillary side entrance, or through the staff entrance under the staff accommodation.
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Means should be arranged to avoid large queues for EC/Nat/Cons. entrance impinging on visitors to Chancery/ Commercial Sections or across the front of the Brit Concil wing. Provision for queueing under cover should also be considered. A covered walkway stretching around the curve of the CG wing at pavement level might be the most aesthetic way to manage this. Consideration should also be given to:
a) Flexibility for a "tidal" flow of entrance/exit,
to cope with unexpectedly large demand, making use of the ancillary entrance at the side of the CG wing;
b) Permanent use of the ancillary entrance as the
main entrance for EC/Nat/Cons sections, with exit at the front; and
c) Use of ancillary entrance for EC/Nat exit at
front, but Cons entrance/exit at front. Creative combinations of the above need not be ruled out in principle. What should be achieved is an effective system of managing (sometimes unpredictable) volumes of callers without impinging on the other users of, or callers to, the building.
Hong Kong Department
7 August 1992
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