Piling of seven-storey flats with a total of 1,792 rooms. Site formation was commenced in May and completed in August. Building work commenced in September and was completed by November. By the end of the year, four of the six blocks had been completed.
Shek Kip Mei Re-development.
80. It was decided to replace the temporary two-storey buildings, erected as an emergency measure after the squatter fire, with multi-storey flats to achieve the maximum density on the available site. To do this, it was necessary to plan the work so that the present occupants could be re-housed as construction of the multi-storey buildings proceeded. The first stage of the re-development was planned on an area not occupied by two-storey buildings and consisted of three blocks with a total of 1,334 rooms.
Site formation commenced in August and was completed in February. Construction of the buildings commenced in December.
81. Sketch plans were prepared in February for stage II of the re-development on part of the site of the two-storey buildings and consisted of six blocks with a total of 2,548 rooms.
Tai Wan Hill Resettlement Flats.
82. A scheme was prepared for four blocks of flats on this site. Owing to the extensive site formation work required, which was being carried out by the Port Works Office, it was decided to let the building contract in two stages—each consisting of two blocks of flats. Site formation commenced in June, but no sites were available by the end of the year. The building contract for stage I was approved, but the contract had not been signed.
Lo Fu Ngam Resettlement Flats.
83. This site was the area of two squatter fires that occurred in November and was then reserved for development in multi-storey resettlement flats. A survey of the site was prepared in December, and sketch plans were submitted for...
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