68. It has already been mentioned in Chapter VI that an entirely new design of resettlement block, eight and sixteen storeys high, is now being built in the new estates. Accommodation for welfare and educational services will continue to be available in these new estates though, for structural reasons, changes are necessary in its location. It will not be possible to use the rooftops of either the Mark III or Mark IV blocks, and there will be no schools on the ground floors. In their place, specially modified top floor accommodation is provided in certain of the Mark Ill blocks, and although there will be no schools inside the large Mark IV blocks, there will be separate six-storey annexes for educational and welfare purposes in estates incorporating Mark IV buildings. Ground floor accommodation for welfare activities will still be provided in some of the blocks in the Mark III estates.
69. There are large recreation spaces within the boundaries of each estate, old and new, similar in design to playgrounds and recreation spaces in other parts of the urban areas. They include small fenced play- grounds for young children, enclosed arcas with lawns and benches for the more elderly, volley-ball and basketball courts, and miniature football grounds.
CHAPTER VIII
RESETTLEMENT FACTORIES
70. In the early days of resettlement, most areas cleared for redevelop- ment contained only domestic huts, shops and cottage industries. There was no special provision for the occasional factories that might be en- countered, nor for workshops, though some of the latter were accom- modated in ground floor rooms in the domestic blocks and, with certain limitations, persons engaged in cottage industry were permitted to carry on work in their domestic rooms. But in time clearance arcas, especially those occupied under permits issued by the Crown Lands and Survey Office of the Public Works Department, began to include larger industrial concerns with heavier machinery. It therefore became necessary to provide resettlement factories in order to facilitate clearances involving persons whose undertakings could not be housed in ground floor workshops in domestic estates but who clearly required alternative accommodation
71. Since 1957 one single-storey and eleven multi-storey factories have been built, comprising 4,056 units. On 31st March, 3,083 of these units were occupied by 870 individual concerns, an increase of 173 busi- nesses during the year. The older factory buildings are similar in appear-
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