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It will be provided with water, drainage, latrines, communal bathhouse
Negotiations for electricity supply are being
and cleansing facilities.
conducted with the China Light & Power Co., Ltd.
Site formation work for the licensed area is expected to start shortly
and will take about one month to complete.
Under the clearance plan, Mr. Grewal said, those huts in the most
dangerous position at Yuen Chau Tsai will be cleared first and the people
affected will be accommodated in huts built for them free by the Government in
the licensed area.
This will involve all the huts on the seaward side of the main
causeway and those which have to be demolished to make way for a further fire
lane,
first.
Altogether, some 59 families (about 558 people) are required to move
At the same time, the Government will encourage as many as possible
of the remaining squatters to move to the licensed area on a voluntary basis.
Instead of government-built huts, families who move voluntarily to
the licensed area will receive an ex-gratia grant of $1,000 each for the purchase
of materials to build their own huts, on condition that their structures at Yuen
Chau Teai are demolished.
Under a long-term plan, all the huts in the Yuen Chau Tsai squatter
area will be cleared in stages and the people from the licensed area will be
accommodated in a low-cost housing estate to be built at Tai Po Market in due
course.
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