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Kung; fire services rank and file quarters at Sha Tin and Tuen Mun and an ambulance depot at Aberdeen.
Other projects in the planning or pre-contract stages included redeployment works at Osborne and Perowne Barracks; soldiers' quarters at Stanley Fort and officers' quarters at Sek Kong and Gun Club Hill Barracks; staff quarters at Sha Tsui Deten- tion Centre; non-departmental quarters at Ventris Road and Mount Butler on Hong Kong Island; a cattle quarantine depot on Tsing Yi Island; new premises for the Government Printer; an extension to the Public Works Department's Electrical and Mechanical Office Workshop at Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon; the Kowloon East Delivery Office for the Post Office; a half-way house and pre-release centre for the Prisons Department; an annexe and store at Stanley Prison and an extension to the Prisons Department's staff training institute.
In addition, an officers' mess and-a physical and recreational training centre at Cassino Lines; a park at Wong Nai Chung Reservoir; a community centre at Tai Po; the reprovisioning of Sheung Shui Social Centre; the redevelopment of Boundary Street Sportsground in Kowloon; a park and swimming pool complex at Sham Shui Po; swimming pool complexes at Kwai Chung and Yuen Long; district open spaces at Kwai Chung and Tuen Mun; a crematorium and columbarium at Sha Tin; markets at To Kwa Wan, Sham Shui Po, Tuen Mun and Kwai Chung and combined markets and hawker bazaars at Tsuen Wan and Sai Kung were also being planned, as were several other recreation grounds, beach buildings, and off-street refuse collection
centres.
Maintenance work on buildings in the public sector continued to expand and there was satisfactory progress with the construction of buildings for the Property Services Agency of the United Kingdom Department of the Environment. Private quantity surveyors and, to a lesser extent, private architects and consultant engineers continued to assist in the public building programme.
Metrication
All new projects designed in the Public Works Department are in metric form and since April 1, 1977, all new plans for private construction submitted to the Buildings Ordinance Office for approval have been_required to be in metric form.
Land Development
In Kowloon, reclamation continued at Lai Chi Kok Bay, where about two hectares were formed for recreational use and open space. Reclamation by public dumping commenced at Sham Shui Po, where 3.4 hectares were formed for institutional use. At Kwun Tong 0.2 of a hectare was formed for the Kowloon East Delivery Office for the Post Office, and at Diamond Hill 2.2 hectares were formed for a crematorium.
On Hong Kong Island, reclamation continued with the formation of 2.1 hectares at Chai Wan for housing and community uses, and 0.6 of a hectare at Aldrich Bay for roads and boatyards. At Aberdeen, 3.2 hectares were formed for the construction of boatyards and a road. A further 0.9 of a hectare was formed for the construction of a trunk road at Shek Pai Wan. On the western side of Hong Kong Island, four hectares were reclaimed for the construction of roads, a wholesale market and for cargo handling uses.