Monday, November 5, 1973
NEW ESTATE TO HOUSE 16,000
A new public housing estate to provide homes for some 16,000
people is to be built in Chai Wan shortly. It will comprise three seven-
storey and one 22-storey blocks.
Apart from recreational, welfare and other basic facilities essential
for a self-contained community, there will be a market complex with more
than 450 stalls, and a car park for about 500 cars.
The estate will also have two primary schools, a post office, a
welfare building, and an administrative block, when it is completed in late
1976 or early 1977.
To enable piling and construction work to start, the site which
partly falls within and partly outside the Chai Wan Licensed Area will have
to be cleared.
A two-day clearance operation, starting tomorrow (Tuesday) has been
drawn up. About 750 structures will be demolished to make way for the
estate.
Site formation and piling work is expected to take place immediately
afterwards.
More than 2,500 people living in the licensed area have been offered
public housing at Ho Man Tin Estate. About 1,200 people squatting on the
outskirts of the licensed area have also been offered new sites in the
vicinity.
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