HOUSING
Urban Housing
On Hong Kong Island, site formation works at both Shau Kei Wan East and West progressed steadily. The two stages of the Shau Kei Wan East site formation will be due for completion in late 1990 and 1991 respectively. The Shau Kei Wan West site formation will be completed in 1992. Building works at both of these sites, when completed, will provide 7 168 rental and 3 648 rental/HOS flats. Wah Kwai Estate at Kellett Bay, which will provide 3 264 rental and 1 402 HOS flats between late 1990 and early 1992, is now in its building construction stage.
At Siu Sai Wan Phase 1, some 1710 rental and 660 HOS flats were receiving their finishing touches. The remaining 594 rental flats will be completed in April 1990. By the end of the year, 716 rental flats in Siu Sai Wan Phase 2 will have been completed. Another 1074 rental flats of this phase will soon be completed within the next few months. The building contract for Siu Sai Wan Phase 3 will begin in early 1990 to produce 2017 rental and 1 216 rental/HOS flats in 1993.
In Kowloon several phases of the Kowloon Central Redevelopment have been completed. Wang Tau Hom Phase 5 and Lower Wong Tai Sin Phase 7 provide 1 008 and 1938 rental flats respectively. The redevelopment of Lei Cheng Uk Phase 2 involving the oldest Mark I-II blocks has also been completed, producing 1 750 rental flats. New blocks in two supplementary housing sites identified for the Extended Redevelopment Programme, Shun Tin Phase 4 and Nam Cheong Estate, were completed during the year, providing a total of about 3 000 rental flats. The redevelopment of Tsui Ping Estate Phase 4 at Kwun Tong is nearing completion, with 1 190 rental flats in its first stage completed in late 1989. For the HOS, 700 flats in King Lai Court at Ngau Chi Wan were completed by the end of this year.
Construction of all three phases of Fung Tak Estate at Diamond Hill is on schedule and will provide 5 752 rental flats upon completion in 1991 and 1992. Further east at Lam Tin, the main part of the site formation for the Lam Tin South Estates has been completed and building work is in hand. In all, the Lam Tin South Estates, when completed, will provide 4 389 rental, 1 824 rental/HOS and 1 400 HOS flats.
Housing in New Towns, Rural Townships and Outlying Islands
In Sha Tin, Phase 1 of Kwong Yuen Estate has been completed with an output of 1 556 flats. Also completed are the 612 and 350 HOS flats at the nearby Kwong Lam Court and Hong Lam Court respectively. Further north in Ma On Shan, the building works at Area 103 are progressing satisfactorily, to provide 3 500 rental flats in 1991. Other housing projects planned in Ma On Shan Areas 90, 100, 103 and 108 will provide 8 562 rental, 5 515 HOS and 4 950 PSPS flats.
The remaining portion of Cheung Fat Estate, and the whole of Tsing Yi Estate Phase 2 situated at the northern part of Tsing Yi Island, were completed this year, thus adding 1 596 rental flats to the housing stock. Cheung Hang Estate, which will provide 2 856 flats, is still under construction. In Tsuen Wan, the redevelopment of Tai Wo Hau Phase 3 with 2 032 flats has been completed. Building works for Phase 4 will soon follow. Over the next few years, the redevelopment of a number of estates in Kwai Chung will begin as part of the Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme. The formation of a supplementary site at Shek Yam East will be put in hand by the department in early 1990 and will provide land for 2 043 rental flats.
In the Tuen Mun area, Kin Sang Estate Phase I and part of Tin King Estate Phase 4 were completed, providing 2 652 and 970 rental flats. Construction of the remaining flats in
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