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Sunday, May 21, 1972
PROMENADE TO BE BUILT IN NORTH POINT
Squatter Iluts To Be Cleared
A strip of land on the hillside below Tin Hau Temple Road,
North Point, is to be cleared of squatter structures this week for
the construction of a promenade.
The strip will also serve as a much needed "lung" for the
area which has a population of about 130,000 with only six acres of
open space.
The promenade will be about 1,000 feet long and 200 feet across.
It will be turfed and will have benches as well as a small children's
playground at one end.
Construction will start right after the clearance and is
expected to take about three months to complete.
More than 100 structures, most of them used as pig sties
will have to be cleared.
A spokesman for the Resettlement Department said that 23
families were living in huts there.
They have been offered resettlement or, if they do not
qualify, space in licensed areas to rebuild their huts.
An ex gratia payment of more than 345,000 has been made
to 14 pig breeders. Nine others do not qualify because of the fact
that they are newcomers.
The promenade is expected to be well used as the area around
it is a favourite place for strollers.
Apart from the illegality, the pig breeders have been a
constant source of complaints from residents living in the vicinity.
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