Committee
Urban Renewal Pilot Scheme
Planning/Engineering Feasibility Study Group
Defence Works Programme
Committee
Castle Peak New Town Works Committee
Sha Tin New Town Works Committee
Members
Chief Engineer, Traffic Engineering Division
Chief Engineer, Port Works Division Assistant Government Civil Engineer, Hong Kong and Headquarters Chief Engineer, Development Division
Chief Engineer, Development Division
5.06. Details of projects completed or under construction are given in Appendices O and P, while statistics relating to roads and drains and to production in Government quarries are shown in Appendix S. Appendix Q contains details of land formation projects. The following paragraphs describe briefly the progress on the more interesting works.
General
DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
Chief Engineer: A. H. WILKINS, B.Sc.(Eng.), C.Eng., F.I.C.E., M.I.C.E.
F. E. SHORT, C.Eng., M.I.C.E. (Acting)
5.07. The Development Division is responsible for investigating the engineering feasibility of schemes for the provision of land for urban development in Kowloon and the New Territories. Where Government agrees to proceed with a scheme the Division also carries out the formation of the land and the provision of services.
5.08. The railway section, besides being responsible for the removal of the railway terminus from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom, held a watching brief on the proposals to construct a mass transit railway system and considered and advised on alterations to a number of building developments, both private and public, which might otherwise have seriously compromised the implementation of the mass transit proposals.
5.09. The reduced demand for land has tended to restrict the work of the Division but satisfactory progress was made on a number of projects.
5.10. The Division manages an annual contract for site investigations under which work is carried out for all divisions and offices of the Department and for Consulting Engineers engaged by Government. The total depth of probes, drill holes and open trial pits was 25,624 ft.
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