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Viednesday, July 25, 1973
SHEK KIP MEI CONVERSION BEGINS
Conversion and renovation work has begun on six blocks of the lower
Shek Kip Mei Estate which were vacated under the first phase of the Shek
Kip Mei rehousing scheme.
On completion, in about eight months, these blocks will provide
much larger self-contained living units with their own water supply, kitchen,
lavatory and private balcony which are lacking in all present Shek Kip Mei
blocks.
Another 15 blocks in the estate will be progressively converted
as the rehousing project continues.
Eight other blocks will be demolished to make way for a large
commercial centre and a link road.
In the mean time, the second phase of the rehousing scheme, which
began in May, is progressing smoothly. Of the 800 families of blocks 3 and 4
affected, more than three quarters have taken up flats in the upper Pak Tin
Estate.
All 25 shopkeepers involved have applied for shop premises in the new
estate and the letting of these is now under way.
The current phase of the rehousing operation is expected to be
completed by the end of next month by which time about cne quarter of the
62,000 Shek Kip Mei tenants will have moved to better housing in upper Pak Tin
Estate,
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