Community Centres
SOCIAL WELFARE BUILDINGS
83. World Refugee Year Funds were made available for the construction of a Community Centre at Wong Tai Sin Resettlement Estate. A rapid start on this project was made possible by a decision to adapt the plans of a standard twenty-four-classroom primary school which, with the addition of cooking facilities for the preparation of communal meals, and some other amendments, adequately meet the requirements of a community centre and provide convenient units of accommodation for allocation by the Director of Social Welfare to the various voluntary societies who will use the Centre for Welfare work. The Wong Tai Sin Building is nearing completion.
84. Subsequently, further funds became available for a Community Centre at Tsuen Wan, and tenders have been invited for site formation and piling contracts.
GENERAL BUILDINGS
Government Offices and Workshops
85. The West Wing and underground car park, which comprise the final stage of development of the Central Government Offices, were completed early in the year. The enclosure of a portion of the covered parking space at ground level for conversion into a dental clinic was subsequently put in hand, and this work is nearing completion.
86. A small P.W.D. depot with quarters at Tai Tam was completed.
87. Sketch plans were prepared, and subsequently amended to provide for a modified scheme, at Caroline Hill, of offices and workshops for the Electrical and Mechanical Office of the Public Works Department, together with offices and training facilities for the Civil Aid Services.
88. A second attempt at designing a scheme for the construction of P.W.D. Electrical & Mechanical workshops and offices for a particular site in Kowloon adjacent to the Kai Tak runway underwent several changes at sketch plan stage when it became known that all of the original site could not be made available for the workshops and offices.
89. Working drawings are in hand for new offices for the Radio Monitoring Unit at Ngau Tau Kok.
90. Sketch plans were prepared for temporary offices on Stage III of the Central Reclamation for the Macau Ferry Companies and for a Revenue Warehouse for the Department of Commerce and Industry.
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