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Friday, January 9, 1976
SHA TIN NEW TOWN HOME FOR HALF A MILLION
The new town now being developed at Sha Tin will be a thriving
community of some 500,000 people of all ages and incomes living and
working in a vastly improved environment where they will be able to
develop socially with a sense of pride and belonging.
This was stated today by Mr. Allan Crosby, Chief Planning
Officer of the Public Works Department's Sha Tin New Town Developmo.t
Office, in a luncheon address to the Rotary Club of Kowloon North.
The massive scheme, which is being carried out in two stages
of progressive balanced development, would involve a government
investment of over $4,000 million and it was envisaged, he said, that
private developers would invest a similar amount.
Mr. Crosby said opportunities to develop a healthy and vigorous
community would certainly be provided at Sha Tin, "Facilities will be
provided to meet the basic needs of the residents
their safety,
shelter, security, health, education, employment and recreation."
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This year, he said, a wide variety of major developments
ranging from reclamations to high-rise buildings and from railway double-
tracking to road works -- would be carried out at Sha Tin by both the
P.W.D. and private agencies at a total commitment of about $1,500 million.
"What is particularly important about most of this work is that
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it is being carried out as part of a comprehensive plan for the cretion
of a modern city within the comparatively short period of ten years,
he said.
Mr. Crosby said the main goal of the scheme was to house
500,000 people in Sha Tin Valley, which now has a population of only
about 30,000, in an attractive environment within the next decade.
Of the