WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986
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VACATION OF BARRACKS NO PROBLEM
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THE TEMPORARY USAGE OF MOST OF THE BUILDINGS IN THE FORMER VICTORIA BARRACKS, INCLUDING CASSELS BLOCK, HAS BEEN ARRANGED IN SUCH A WAY AS TO ALLOW THEIR VACATION AT SIX MONTHS' NOTICE, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON NICKY CHAN, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
HE WAS REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON HILTON CHEONG-LEEN,. WHO NOTED THAT IT HAD BEEN ALMOST SEVEN YEARS SINCE THE ARMED FORCES HAD VACATED THE BARRACKS SITE TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO DEVELOP PART OF IT FOR LEISURE.
MR CHAN SAID THE URBAN COUNCIL'S CONSULTANTS HAD SUBMITTED A PROGRAMME FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE LEISURE AND RECREATION AREA WHICH ENVISAGED THAT WORK WOULD START IN MID-1988. + SEE LITTLE PROBLEM IN VACATING THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS AFFECTED TO MEET THIS PROGRAMME DATE,+ HE SAID.
MORE INDUSTRIAL LOTS LEASED *****
FIFTEEN LOTS TOTALLING 9.2 HECTARES WERE LEASED AT THE TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE IN 1985-86, THE SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY, THE HON ERIC HO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THESE FIGURES COMPARED WITH FOUR LOTS TOTALLING 2.4 HECTARES
IN 1984-85, AND THREE LEASES INVOLVING 1.7 HECTARES IN 1983-84.
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LIU LIT-FOR, MR HO POINTED OUT THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT, CONSTRUCTION, MARKETING, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF THE TAI PO INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WAS VESTED IN THE HONG KONG INDUSTRIAL ESTATES CORPORATION.
HE ADDED: THE EXISTENCE OF THE CORPORATION'S INDUSTRIAL ESTATES HAS BEEN GIVEN WIDE GENERAL PUBLICITY, LOCALLY AND OVERSEAS, BY BOTH THE CORPORATION AND THE INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION DIVISION OF THE INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT.
+DETAILED INFORMATION ON CONDITIONS IN THE ESTATES AND THE CRITERIA FOR ENTRY IS PROVIDED, WHETHER TO ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUAL FIRMS, WHENEVER THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT INTEREST IN OBTAINING A SITE MAY BE STIMULATED.+
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