Friday, June 29, 1973
NEW KWAI CHUNG HOUSING PROJECT
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Homes for about 15,000 people are to be provided in the first
stage of the new Lai King housing project in Kwai Chung.
Costing nearly $27 million, this phase will involve the construction
of a 22-storey and three 15-storey blocks for domestic accommodation.
A spokesman for the Housing Department said today there will also
be a kindergarten and two estate primary schools containing 48 classrooms,
a modular market with 40 hawker stalls, 12 shops, a restaurant, a cafe
and recreational facilities.
The Lai King estate will be built on a series of platforms off
Kwai Chung Road which were formed as part of the overall development plan
for the aroa.
Ultimately the estate will house 27,000 people in more than 4,000
flats. Work on this second and final phase is expected to begin in February
next year and will include another 22-storey and two 15-storey blocks to
accommodate 12,000 people.
Several other schools providing kindergarten, primary and secondary
education also form part of the final phase.
The whole estate should be ready in mid-1976.
Residents living there will have easy access to the urban areas
when the proposed mass transit system is completed as provision has been
made for an underground station to be built in the centre of the estate.
Note to Editors:
Photographs of a model of the estate are
boxed today.
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