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Wednesday, May 24, 1972
GROUND LEVEL PARKING AND HAWKER BAZAAR
To Be Provided In San Po Kong Site
The Director of Public Works, the Hon. J.J. Robson, said today
the site which lies between Yin Hing and Shung Ling Streets at San Po Kong
would simply be used to provide ground level parking for cars and a hawker
bazaar including cooked food stalls.
He said this would be subject to the inclusion of an appropriate
item in the Public Works Programme.
He was speaking in the Legislative Council in reply to Dr. the
Hon. S.Y. Chung who had asked:
"Referring to a question on November 18, 1970,
is Government in a position to report its findings about maximum use of a
site at San Po Kong for providing space for cooked food stalls?"
Mr. Robson said the original intention was to sell the site for
development as a multi-storey car park with a sale condition that space
would be made available on the ground floor for use, at least in part, as a
hawker bazaar including cooked food stalls.
"However, recent discussions with the Director of Fire Services have
indicated that any multi-storey building exceeding a height of three storeys
would result in an unacceptable fire risk since the site in question is surrounded
by multi-storey residential buildings and has only limited vehicle access.
Accordingly, he said, it was now intended to abandon for the tire being
the idea of selling the site for a multi-storey car park.
"It is possible that at a later stage, the site could be developed
to a maximum of three storeys so as to provide additional facilities of the same
type," he said.
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