66. The second scheme was for the development of a 7 acre site as an extension to the newly completed Tai Hang Tung Estate. This site was occupied by a number of substantial structures, including a film studio, in addition to 1,650 squatters. By June it had been cleared and piling commenced shortly afterwards. Four of the six buildings had been completed by the end of March 1956 and the other two were nearing com- pletion. This extension will increase the capacity of the Tai Hang Tung Estate from 24,000 to 37,000 persons.
67. Work was also started on the removal of a large part of Tai Wan Hill, Hung Hom, which will provide the site for the third project, a new estate of four blocks of 1,848 rooms. By the end of the year the site for the first two blocks was nearly ready and work was about to start on the site for the third and fourth blocks.
68. The fourth project was the first stage of a scheme to construct seven-storey buildings in place of the emergency two- storey buildings built on the Shek Kip Mei fire site early in 1954. Three new seven-storey 'H' blocks are now being built and these will be used to accommodate the persons now occupying 22 of the two-storey buildings which will then be demolished to provide the site for Stage II of the redevelopment scheme and also the site for a large Polyclinic.
69. This building programme had by the end of March 1956 provided for about 38,000 more persons with the result that the population of the multi-storey estates rose from 30,298 on 1.4.55 to 68,657 on 31.3.56. These figures do not include the 36,747 persons still occupying the temporary two-storey buildings at Shek Kip Mei. Further details of population figures are at Table A of Appendix I.
70. The schemes at Li Cheng Uk, Shek Kip Mei, Tai Hang Tung and Hung Hom on which work is still in progress will provide accommodation for an additional 37,000 persons during the next twelve months. All these estates are in Kowloon, partly because it is in Kowloon that the squatter problem has been most serious, and partly because no suitable large sites which could be developed without great cost are at present
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