MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1983
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IN THE SAME MONTH, THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE ALSO GAVE CONSENT FOR WORK TO START ON 43 PROJECTS. THEY INCLUDE THE ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE JUNCTION OF FENWICK STREET AND HARBOUR ROAD, A CARGO TERMINAL IN KAI TAK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND A CLOTHING INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CENTRE AT THE JUNCTION OF SIU YIP STREET AND TAI YIP STREET,
ALTOGETHER, 41 OCCUPATION PERMITS WERE ISSUED FOR NEWLY- COMPLETED BUILDINGS IN APRIL. THEY COMPRISE A SCHOOL EXTENSION IN KENNEDY ROAD, A HOTEL/COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN SALISBURY ROAD, AN ELECTRICITY SUB-STATION AND A BUS DEPOT IN YUEN LONG.
THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE ALSO GAVE PERMISSION FOR 44 BUILDINGS TO BE DEMOLISHED IN THE SAME MONTH.
ELDERLY PEOPLE GET PUBLIC HOUSING PRIORITY
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TWENTY-FIVE ELDERLY COUPLES ARE HAPPILY SETTLING DOWN IN THETR NEW MONES AT THE FU SHAN ESTATE, AS A RESULT OF THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT'S PRIORITY SCHEME FOR THE ELDERLY.
THEY ARE AMONG THE LATEST GROUP TO BENEFIT UNDER THE SCHEME, HOUSING DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.
HE SAID THE SCHEME GAVE PRIORITY IN PUBLIC HOUSING ALLOCATION NARRIED COUPLES OR GROUPS OF THREE UNRELATED PEOPLE WHO WERE 60 YEARS OF AGE OR ABOVE.
+SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1979, MORE THAN 3 000 ELDERLY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS.
+THEY ARE PUT ON A SPECIAL WAITING LIST AND OFFERED PUBLIC HOUSING NORMALLY WITHIN TWO YEARS OF REGISTRATION.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID MORE ELDERLY COUPLES WOULD SOON BE MOVING TO THE FU SHAN ESTATE WHERE SOME 100 VACANCIES HAD BECOME AVAILABLE FROM AN EXTERNAL DECANTATION EXERCISE TO RELIEVE OVERCROWD ING.
IN A VISIT TO INSPECT THE PROGRESS OF THE SCHEME AT FU SHAN, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR HOUSING, MR BERNARD WILLIAMS TALKED TO SOME OF THE ELDERLY COUPLES WHO ALL EXPRESSED GRATITUDE FOR THE SCHEME AND SATISFACTION WITH THEIR NEW HOMES.
AMONG THEM WERE MR LAM TAK-WING, A CASUAL WORKER AGED 70, AND HIS WIFE, MADAM LEUNG WAI-MING, 67, WHO HAD COME FROM A SMALL CUBICLE IN A CAUSEWAY BAY TENEMENT BUILDING WHICH THEY HAD RENTED AT $1 100 A MONTH.
+OUR NEW HOME IS BIG ENOUGH FOR US, AND THE RENT IS ONLY $155 WHICH MEANS A SAVING OF ALMOST $1 000 A MONTH,* MR LAM SAID.
HE HAD TO WAIT FOR ONLY ONE AND A HALF YEARS BEFORE GETTING THE FLAT.
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