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Friday, March 16, 1973
LAND TO BE RECLAIMED FOR SHA TIN RACE COURSE
Carpark And Playgrounds Planned
An area of 230 acres will be reclaimed in Tide Cove off Ho Tung Lau
in Sha Tin for the construction of a second race course.
It is proposed that the land will be granted to the Royal Hong Kong
Jockey Club, who will be undertaking the reclamation work.
When completed, the race course will have a seating capacity of 35,000
to 50,000, and the tracks will be built to international standards.
Construction work will include ancillary buildings and a car park,
and the centre of the course will provide spacious playgrounds and sports
facilities.
The proposed land grant also stipulates that the Jockey Club should
reclaim an additional site adjacent to the race course site, and this is to be
reserved for Government projects, including a public road and a pump house.
It is estimated that 16 million cubic yards of filling material will
be required for the major reclamation.
The material will be taken from borrow areas which will later bo
developed as part of the Sha Tin New Town development.
In deciding on the locations of borrow areas, precautions will be
taken to preserve the landscape so that local scenery will not be disfigured by
the "borrowing".
A notification of the proposed reclamations is published in today's
Gazette, and will also be posted near the site.
People having any objections or claims of private right should submit
them to the Director of Public Works within two months of the notification.
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