Prisons Department Buildings
2.52. The Open Prison at Tong Fuk on Lantau Island was completed. This scheme, on a steeply sloping site, comprises 12 two-storey dormitory blocks, each to accommodate 100 prisoners, an administration building containing offices and stores, a combined dining and recreation hall, workshops, laundry, clinic and chapel. Quarters for 4 prison officers, 97 other married quarters of differing grades and barrack accommodation for 60 single warders are also provided.
2.53. Towards the end of the year a start was made on the construction of a new Staff Training School and Prison Officers' Quarters at Stanley Prison. The project consists basically of two groups of buildings which will provide three standard classrooms with administrative offices for the Commandant and his executive staff, a separate drill hall/gymnasium complete with dressing rooms, dormitory and hostel accommodation for 120 warders and 20 officers, together with dining facilities, two senior grade married quarters for training school staff and 22 additional quarters for Stanley Prison Officers. A parade ground and a children's play area have also been incorporated in the site.
Resettlement and Low Cost Housing
2.54. During the year Resettlement buildings containing 125,000 adult domestic living units were completed and others containing 238,000 units were under construction. In addition, three Resettlement flatted factories providing about 323,000 square feet of working space were completed. Eleven estate schools containing 264 classrooms were handed over for occupation and construction of twenty further estate schools was in hand.
2.55. Construction of the new Mark V domestic Resettlement buildings made good progress at Sau Mau Ping and Ngau Tau Kok. The Mark V design provides domestic units of four different sizes which are based on the results of a survey taken to determine the average sizes of families in Resettlement estates and it incorporates the individual toilets provided in the earlier Mark IV block and introduces an individual water supply to each domestic unit.
2.56. Site formation was in hand at six sites on which accommodation for some 290,000 people can be built.
2.57. Development of sites for Government Low Cost Housing estates has continued with the use of standard 12 and 20-storey domestic blocks.
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