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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1988
DISTRICTS TO
IN BE THE
THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED CO-ORDINATION TEAMS (BMCT'S) ASSIST
IN RESIDENTS
IMPROVING ΤΟ CO-ORDINATE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL
THE SCHEME WAS 80 SUCCESSFUL THAT LATE 1984 THAT BUILDING MANAGEMENT ESTABLISHED IN MANAGEMENT OF THEIR BUILDINGS AND ACTION ON MATTERS RELATING TO BUILDING MANAGEMENT.
OF
ONE
HOUSING
MANAGER, EACH BMCT CONSISTED HOUSING MANAGER AND TWO HOUSING ASSISTANTS SECONDED FROM DEPARTMENT.
BOARDS, DISTRICT
ONE ASSISTANT THE HOUSING
CARRIED
OUT
THE TEAMS IDENTIFIED IN CONSULTATION WITH
AND MANAGEMENT, BUILDINGS WHICH SUFFERED FROM POOR ADVISORY AND INSPECTION VISITS TO THESE TARGET BUILDINGS.
THAT AT
PRESENT
SEVERAL
ORDINANCES, BUILDINGS, REQUIRED
MR LAN SAID
UNRELATED ENFORCED BY SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS, APPLIED TO MULTI-STOREY AND THEREFORE A HIGH DEGREE OF INTER-AGENCY CO-OPERATION WAS TO ENSURE A CONCERTED AND EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO ENFORCEMENT.
BY OUT
THE BMCT'S UNDER THE BEING CARRIED THIS ROLE WAS
BUILDING MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION DISTRICT SUPERVISION OF THE
FROM VARIOUS COMMITTEES, WHICH COMPRISED GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES
BUILDING MANAGEMENT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN MATTERS.
IN THE TONG
SINCE 1985-86, SEVEN DISTRICT BMCT'S HAD BEEN DEPLOYED EASTERN, WAN CHAI, CENTRAL AND WESTERN, YAU TSIM, MONG KOK, KWUN AND KWAI TSING DISTRICT OFFICES.
THE FIRST FIVE TEAMS DEALT WITH DOMESTIC BUILDINGS, TEAMS IN KWUN TONG AND KWAI TSING CONCENTRATED MAINLY ON MULTI-STOREY INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS.
WHILE THE PROBLEMS IN
THREE MORE TEAMS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN SHAM SHUI PO, CITY AND TSUEN WAN LATER THIS MONTH.
DISTRICT "BY THEN THE 10
SOME MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN MR LAN NOTED.
KOWLOON
1.9
SERVING ABOUT RESIDENTIAL UNITS,
п
TEAMS WILL 475,000 PRIVATE
BE
BROUGHT
CURRENTLY, MR LAN SAID, THERE WERE 219 TARGET BUILDINGS IN TARGET LIST OF THE BMCT'S. SINCE THEIR ESTABLISHMENT IN MAY 1985,
HAD BMCT'S
ABOUT SUBSTANTIAL
BUILDINGS.
IMPROVEMENTS
THE THE IN 74 TARGET
"WE, THEREFORE, INTEND
ΤΟ
EXPAND
THE SCHEME
REMAINING DISTRICTS AS AND WHEN RESOURCES BECOME AVAILABLE,
ΤΟ
COVER THE HE NOTED.
COULD DO
MUCH PARTICULAR
OF
THE
WITH
MR LAN SAID THERE WAS A LIMIT TO WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
"THIS TACKLING
PROBLEM RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH THE
IN
INDIVIDUAL OWNERS OF PROPERTY.
OF URBAN COMMUNITY
DECAY. AND IN ITSELF,
/"INDEED, IT