41. A total of 114 factories, 52 workshops and 230 shops was cleared, involving the allocation of 246 units in resettlement factories and 210 shop or workshop premises in domestic estates. The details are as follows:
(a) Factories
No. of factories resettled
No. of factories to be resettled subject to change of trade No. of factories moved to Class III licensed area No. of factories ineligible for resettlement No. of eligible factories refusing resettlement...
Total number of factories cleared
(b) Shops/Workshops/Cash Allowance
81
...
Nil
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18
12
...
3
114
-
..
***
No. of shopkeepers eligible for cash allowance No. of shops/workshops resettled
No. of shops/workshops ineligible for resettlement
Total number of shops/workshops cleared
***
***
67 159
56
282
42. Under the new shop policy, a total amount of $402,000.00 was paid to 67 eligible shopkeepers up to 31st March, 1970.
CHAPTER 5
RESETTLEMENT ESTATES
CONSTRUCTION
43. The first resettlement blocks were built in 1954. They were six- storey blocks (known later as Mark I blocks), and they were extremely simple and basic. This was done to enable them to be built in quantity as quickly as possible, and at rents which could be kept low enough for the squatters to be rehoused. The basic design was H-shaped in plan, with outside access balconies; two water standpipes, six com- munal flush latrines and a communal open space for washing clothes were provided in the cross-piece of the H. As more blocks were built, the design was modified: the number of storeys was increased from six to seven; the flat roofs were strengthened and fenced in for use as schools and recreational space; communal bathrooms were provided on the scale of one to about 35 domestic rooms; and a number of ground floor rooms were converted to allow squatters who had shops or work- shops before being resettled to continue in business.
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