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range of community facilities must be provided. Ground-floor rooms are set aside to be let as shops or workshops to settlers who operated similar businesses in the clearance area. Shops are of various sizes. Those of 240 square feet in the Mark I and II estates are divided into four grades and are available at $200, $150, $115 or $80 a month rent according to locality. In the Mark III and IV estates the sizes vary again and, as with domestic rooms, rents are higher. The rents include rates and are subject to annual review. Some shop spaces are used by government departments and private welfare organizations as schools, clinics or nurseries. Even the rooftops in Mark I and II blocks are put to use, most of them having been allocated to voluntary agencies who operate schools or children's clubs under the guidance of the Education or Social Welfare Departments. In some of the Mark III blocks the top floors, suitably modified, are used for schools, while in estates incorporating Mark IV buildings separate six-storey annexes (each with 24 classrooms) are provided for school accommodation. There are community centres in some estates.
Provision is also made for the small factories which always operate in squatter areas. To enable those resettled from such factories to continue earning a livelihood, multi-storey resettlement factory blocks have been built. With the passage of time it has also become necessary to recover, for more intensive development, land formerly occupied by factories on annual permits. These under- takings are generally more substantial than 'squatter' factories and workshops but, when their permits are cancelled, the owners often have difficulty in finding alternative accommodation. It has therefore been the practice for some years to offer resettlement also to the operators of such concerns when their permits are cancelled to enable the land which they occupy to be developed. Because of the need to use a simple design in order to keep construction costs, and therefore rents, as low as possible, a number of trades cannot be accommodated in the multi-storey factory blocks and conse- quently some factories can be resettled only if the owners are willing to change their trades.
The factory blocks have industrial working space in units of 198 square feet in the older five-storey blocks, the first of which was completed in 1957, and 256 square feet in the latest seven-storey design. At the end of the year there were 16 resettlement flatted