Thursday, January 15, 1976
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He noted that a secondary school was also being built outside the
This school would serve the whole district.
estate boundary.
Mr. Ku said the planning of centralised facilities for the future
estate residents had enabled a more generous allocation of open space for
the area.
Nearly four acres of open space would be provided in and around the
estate to cater for the recreational needs of the residents. There would
include two rest gardens and children's playgrounds.
To enable tenants and nearby fesidents to go about their daily shopping
activities couveniently, the P.W.D. architects have designed a large market
and carpark complex next to the estate.
"This shopping complex," Mr. Ku said, "will be of a higher standard
to make up for the rather inadequate commercial and marketing facilities in
the adjacent older estates."
Two footbridges would be built over Chri Wan Rood to provide casy
access for residents of the old Chai Wan Estate to make use of the shopping
facilities and other amenities of the now estate.
The market complex, to be managed by the Urban Services Department,
would provide 59 large and 356 mini-stalls, complete with washing, scalding,
storage and refuse disposal facilities. Provision has also been made for 20
cooked-food stalls with a centralised func-extracting system.
Incorporated in the complex would be a library, U.S.D. registration
offices and a carpark.
Mr. Ku said it was intended initially to build only two floors of the
carpark providing spaces for 225 cars, but allowance would be made to extend
it at a later stage to provide another 327 parking spaces.
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