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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
Corporation introduced the redevelopment projects in Wing Lok Street/Queen's Road Central and Jubilee Street/Queen's Road Central. It was said that when the projects were completed, there would be a market/cooked food centre of 2500 M2 and a cooked food centre/hawker bazaar of 2700 M2 in the above sites respectively. However, at the meeting of the Central and Western District Board on 20 April 1995, the Land Development Corporation stated that the Urban Council was willing to give up the municipal facilities in the above venue and the Land Development Corporation had discretion on the land use of the sites. I would like to ask:-
(a) In the above redevelopment projects, how much area was originally allocated to the Council for municipal facilities?
(b) Why did the Council give up the land for municipal facilities in the above venues before and after redevelopment? What kind of undertakings did the Land Development Corporation give the Council?
(c) When would the Central Market be redeveloped? How would the facilities of the development projects in Wing Lok Street and Jubilee Street be affected?
MR. AMBROSE CHEUNG Wing-sum, Vice-Chairman OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in Cantonese):- This three-part question concerns the Land Development Corporation's redevelopment scheme on Wing Lok Street/Queen's Road Central (LDC Scheme H3) and Jubilee Street/Queen's Road Central (LDC Scheme H6), as well as the future of the existing Central Market.
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The first part of the question asks about the site area originally allocated to the Council for municipal facilities in these two schemes. When the two schemes were first conceived and presented for Council's advice in 1990, a total area of 7690 m2 were to be allocated to the Council for development of various UC facilities, including 2 cooked food centres, a wet goods market, a dry goods hawker bazaar, a public toilet as well as district open space.
3. The second part of the question asks why the Council agreed to delete certain of these proposed facilities and what related undertakings the LDC gave to the Council at the time. With regard to the proposed cooked food centres, the Council decided in late 1992 that there was no need for any cooked food centre in the LDC Scheme in Wing Lok Street, because there was no hawker resite commitment in respect of that scheme. As regards the LDC Scheme in Jubilee Street, Council also decided that rather than providing a UC Cooked Food Centre, it would be more appropriate and compatible with the development for the LDC to provide a private up-market commercial food court within the Scheme.
4. Again in late 1992, the Council decided to delete the proposed wet goods market in view of serious doubts as to its inherent viability and the threat it would pose on the viability of the existing Central Market and Sheung Wan Market. The Council also agreed that if new wet-goods marketing facilities
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