and the remaining eighty three were built and handed over to the Resettlement Department by various Catholic Churches.
73. In some areas, cottages are to be moved to make way for more intensive development. As has been stated in Chapter III of this Report, a portion of King's Park Resettlement Area has already been cleared for a salt water reservoir. In December 1958 notices were issued to the owners of 464 cottages and wooden huts in Chai Wan Resettlement Area which are to be cleared for an access road to the new Chai Wan reclamation area. In March 1959 notices were issued to the owners of 568 cottages in Tung Tau Resettlement Area which are being replaced by multi-storey resettlement blocks. This trend will continue and it is expected that an increasing number of cottages in the Resettlement Areas will have to be moved in the future to enable more economic use to be made of the land that they now occupy.
74. On 1st April, 1959, the cottage areas contained altogether 14,841 domestic structures, 5,573 of which were wooden huts—a decrease of 329 from the previous year, and 9,268 stone or brick cottages an increase of 806. There were also eighty factories and small workshops and 406 shops. Details of the buildings may be found in the Appendix to this chapter.
75. Particulars of the population of the various cottage areas will be found at Appendix I at the end of this Report.
76. All families in the cottage areas pay quarterly permit fees to Government for their sites, the amount depending both on the size of the site and the location of the area. For an average site of between 150 and 170 square feet the permit fee is now $5 a quarter in the out- lying areas and $15 a quarter in the central areas. If the permittee does not own the cottage he occupies he will also have to pay a monthly rent or hire-purchase payment to the owner.
77. In 1958/59 revenue from permit fees amount to $1,111,410 and rent from Government-owned cottages amounted to $211,980.
78. Although the basic principles governing the administration of the cottage areas are the same as those for the multi-storey estates and many of the problems are common to both, there are several important differences. The difficulties which arise with the concentration of up to 60,000 persons in one estate do not exist, but there are others peculiar to the cottage areas. One is the problem of fire risk, which is ever
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