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Friday, June 8, 1973
MORE RESIDENTIAL LAND TO BE FORMED
Some five-and-a-half acres of land (about 270,000 square feet)
is to be carved from the North Kowloon foothills for future residential
development.
The land will be formed in connection with the development of
areas off Lung Cheung Road and will cover the whole of Tai Wor Ping Cottage
area to the north of the Shek Kip Mei Service Reservoir.
Formation work will start next month and is expected to be
completed in early 1975, at a cost of some $5.2 million.
The site will be formed in tiers of varying sizes each fitted
with proper drainage facilities, and will be served by a 2,000 foot dual
carriageway running through it.
About 500,000 cubic yards of earth will be removed from the
site. The excavated materials will be dumped in Kowloon Bay for the
formation of the Kwun Tong mass transit depot.
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