WEDNESDAY, DECEMBLI
COTTAGE AREAS GETTING METERED WATER SUPPLY
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THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT HAS STARTED A $4 MILLION SCHEME TO PGRADE FACILITIES FOR RESIDENTS IN COTTAGE AREAS.
A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT UNDER THE SCHEME IS TO SUPPLEMENT COMMUNAL STANDPIPES WITH INDIVIDUAL METERED WATER SUPPLY IN EIGHT COTTAGE AREAS.
HE SAID THE SCHEME WOULD BENEFIT ABOUT 8 000 COTTAGE AREA RESIDENTS ON COMPLETION IN TWO YEAR'S TIME.
AT FO TAN COTTAGE AREA WORKS HAD JUST BEEN COMPLETED.
+SIMILAR INSTALLATIONS ARE UNDERWAY AT THREE COTTAGE APEAS OF SO KON PO IN CAUSEWAY BAY. TUNG TAU IN KOWLOON AND MOUNT DAVIS IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT ON HONG KONG ISLAND.
+PLANS HAVE BEEN DRAWN UP FOR NEXT YEAR COVERING THE REMAINING FOUR COTTAGE AREAS, NAMELY, FU TAU WAT, CHAI WAN SECTION V, TAI WO HAU AND SHUI NGAU LING,+
THE SPOKESMAN SAID AS MOST OF THE COTTAGE AREAS WERE BUILT OVER 30 YEARS AGO WITH MINIMAL FACILITIES PROVIDED, IT WAS NECESSARY TO UPGRADE THE IR FACILITIES.
+THEREFORE, THERE ARE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS INCOPORATED IN THE SCHEME AS WELL.
+THEY INCLUDE THE REPLACEMENT OF AQUA PRIVIES WITH FLUSHING LATRINES, REINFORCEMENT OF STREET LIGHTING AND THE PROVISION OF SITTING-OUT AREAS AND CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS WHERE SUITABLE SITES ARE AVAILABLE.
+ IN ADDITION, FIRE HYDRANTS ARE INSTALLED OR ADDED.+
MODERN COMPLEX FOR MONG KOK TO MEET CHANGING NEEDS
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IN ORDER TO MEET THE CHANGING NEEDS OF THE URBAN AREAS. IT IS THE CONTINUING AIM OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TO REPROVIS!CA OLD MARKETS AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, REBUILD ON THE SAME SITE NS MARKET COMPLEXES WITH MODERN FACILITIES.
TO THIS END, PLANS ARE NON IN HAND TO REDEVELOP THE EX STING FA YUEN STREET MARKET AND HAWKER BAZAAR INTO A 10-TOREY MULTI-PURPOSE BUILDING. THE OLD BAZAAR HAS CA CRED FOR THE COMMUNITY NEEDS OF YONG KOK RESIDENT, FOR ALVOST FJ YEARS.
THE SITE, MEASURING SOME 1 650 3UARE METRES, IS BOUNDED E: FA YUEN STATET, WONG KOK ROAD, TUNG AND FIFE
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