Wednesday, March 6, 1974
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NEW ESTATE TO HOUSE 29,000 PEOPLE
A public housing estate is to be built to the south of Clear
Water Bay Road to provide homes for about 29,000 people. At the same
time, Clear Water Bay Road will be re-aligned and widened to cope with
the heavy traffic.
The estate will be built in three stages, the first of which
will involve site formation and the construction of public housing
accommodation for about 10,000 people.
Site formation work is expected to start in a few months' time.
Housing Department staff today began clearing the strip of land
which runs for a quarter of a mile adjacent to the southern side of Clear
Water Bay Road in the Ngau Chi Wan area.
A total of about 470 structures are involved in the clearance
operation, which will be completed in another two or three days time.
More than 430 of these are tolerated structures and about 700 people
living in them have been offered public housing at Sau Mau Ping or Lan Tin
Estate.
Ex-gratia allowances amounting to $1.2 million were given to 50
eligible shop or factory operators.
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