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Tuesday, December 4, 1973
NEW BUILDING PLANS APPROVED
A total of 102 new building plans were approved by the Buildings
Ordinance Office in October this year, compared with 79 in the same month
last year.
Most of the plans submitted were for multi-storey apartment/
commercial buildings with 57 of them to be located on Hong Kong Island,
14 in Kowloon and 31 in the New Territories.
These included a 29-storey apartment/commercial building in
Caine Road on the Island, one of 23 storeys in Soy Street in Kowloon and
one of 21 storeys in Po Kong Village Road, San Po Kong.
In the same month, 38 completed buildings were certified for
occupation. The total declared costs of these buildings was over $52
million.
The Office also approved work to start on 57 new building projects,
including a club house for the Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wongneichong
Gap Road.
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