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Tuesday, May 2, 1972
PLAYGROUND AND SITTING-OUT AREA
To Be Built On Old Ngau Tau Kok Market
A large playground and sitting-out area will be constructed
on the site of the old Ngau Tau Kok Market at the junction of Chun Wah
Street and Ngau Tau Kok Road to improve the environment and to provide
more and better recreational facilities to residents living in the crowded
Jordan Valley Resettlement Estate.
Tenders for this project, covering an area of 9,200 square feet,
are expected to be called shortly.
The old Ngau Tau Kok Market is no longer serving its purpose
following the opening in March of a new market built by government nearby
at a cost of $580,000.
The new market, covering an area of 28,000 feet, was built in
accordance with the laid down policy of the Urban Council to improve
stage by stage the marketing facilities in urban areas, especially in
those densely-populated resettlement estates.
The former lessees of the old market have already been allocated
stalls in the new market and licensed hawkers who had pitches in the
vicinity of the old market were similarly allocated pitches in the new market.
The area immediately adjacent to the old market is at present
occupied by 66 illegal structures. In a recent survey jointly carried out
by the Urban Services and Resettlement Departments, it was found that 24
of these structures were being used for domestic and storage purposes,
29 for domestic and hawking purposes and the remaining 13 as hawking stalls.
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