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* DECEBER 11, 1985
REFERRING TO THE YAU MA TEI SIX STREETS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, MR CHAN SAID HE COULD CONFIRM THAT THE HOUSING SOCIETY HAD INCLUDED IT INTO THE IR PROGRAMME AND THAT A START HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE.
+SYMPATHETIC TREATMENT WILL BE ACCORDED TO PEOPLE AFFECTED AND SUITABLE PUBLICITY WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROJECT, HE ADDED,
ON PROPOSALS TO EXTEND THE AMBIT OF THE TOWN PLANNING ORDINANCE, MR CHAN SAID THESE HAD ALREADY BEEN PUT FORWARD BY THE GOVERNMENT AND DISCUSSIONS WITH THE HEUNG YEE KUK AND OTHERS WERE UNDERWAY. FURTHER PROGRESS WOULD DEPEND ON THE OUTCOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS.
ON THE NEED TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR AGRICULTURAL VILLAGES, MR CHAN SAID HE ACCEPTED THAT MORE NEEDED TO BE DONE. HOWEVER, MANY VILLAGES ALREADY HAD BETTER SERVICES AND MOST OF THOSE NEAR NEW TOWNS NOW HAD METERED WATER, ELECTRICITY AND TELEPHONES.
+THE NEED FOR COMMERCIAL, RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL FACILITIES IS OF COURSE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THE PLANS FOR THE NEARBY NEW TOWNS THEMSELVES, HE SAID.
REFERRING TO THE SUPPLY OF WATER TO SQUATTER AREAS, MR CHAN SAID PRESENT PLANS WERE FOR METERED WATER SUPPLY TO BE EXTENDED TO ALL VILLAGES AND SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS, WHERE TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE, WITHIN THREE TO FOUR YEARS.
SETTLEMENTS WHICH COULD NOT BE REACHED BY MAINS SUPPLY OR WHICH WERE DUE FOR CLEARANCE WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD WOULD BE SERVED BY STANDPIPES.
ON THE CONTROL OF ADVERTISING SIGNS, MR CHAN SAID THIS WAS A FORMIDABLE TASK BUT THE PROBLEM WAS BEING EXAMINED.
HE ADDED THAT AS SOON AS SENSIBLE CONCLUSIONS WERE REACHED WHATEVER MEASURES WERE AGREED UPON WOULD BE INTRODUCED. IN THE MEANTIME THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE WOULD CONTINUE TO INSPECT SIGNS AND REMOVE THOSE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.
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