Friday, December 28, 1973
NEW ESTATE TO HOUSE 27,000 PEOPLE
The Housing Authority is to build a new public housing estate,
the Shing On Estate, in the Shek Wai Kok area in Teuen Wan to provide
homes for 27,000 people.
As a new feature of the estate, the living unite will be planned
on the new space allocation standard of 50 square feet per person.
About 1.5 million square feet of land adjacent to the Cheung
Shan Estate is to be resumed for the housing project. Details of the lots
of land affected are published in today's gazette.
Shing On Estate is one of several estates included in the earlier
part of the ten year housing programme.
It will be carried out in two stages. The first phase, to be
completed in about four years, will provide self-contained unite for about
17,000 people. The second phase will be finished in the following year
and will house another 10,000 people.
The estate will have all the essential recreational, welfare,
educational and medical facilities similar to those provided in existing
public housing estates.
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