SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. 1989
URBAN SQUATTERS ON UNSAFE HILLSIDES TO BE CLEARED
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UNSAFE HILLSIDES ALL RESIDENTS OF URBAN SQUATTER HUTS ON EXPECTED TO BE CLEARED AND REHOUSED WITHIN 20 MONTHS.
ARE
THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT. UNDER ITS OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS
ALMOST 38.000 SQUATTER CLEARANCE PROGRAMME. HAS CLEARED AND REHOUSED SQUATTERS FROM POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SLOPES.
ANOTHER
8.000
SQUATTER
HILLSIDES ARE EXPECTED TO BE PROGRAMME.
HUT REHOUSED
ON
RESIDENTS LIVING
UNSAFE UNDER THE 1989-90 CLEARANCE
OR SQ PEOPLE REMAINING ON BE CLEARED UNDER THE 1990-91
10,000
IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE UNSAFE SLOPES IN THE URBAN AREA WILL CLEARANCE PROGRAMMES,
THROUGH THE
GOVERNMENT
HAS
CLEARANCE MADE VERY
OVER PROGRAMMES
THE PAST YEARS THE ΤΟ SAFEGUARD IMPROVEMENTS SIGNIFICANT
SQUATTERS FROM LANDSLIDE HAZARDS.
IN MAY 1982,
IN A
SEVERE
FOUNDATIONS
WERE WERE
HUT RESIDENTS DIED
LANDSLIDES
OR WHICH
26 SQUATTER
SMALL
RAINSTORM. MANY OF THE VICTIMS LIVED IN FLIMSY WOODEN HUTS WHICH STRUCK BY DEBRIS FROM
SWEPT AWAY BY DEBRIS-LADEN FLOOD WATER.
OFFICE (GCO) CARRIED
LATER IN 1982. THE GEOTECHNICAL CONTROL OUT A STUDY WHICH SHOWED THAT THERE WERE MORE THAN 50,000 SQUATTERS LIVING ON STEEP HILLSIDES IN THE URBAN AREA VULNERABLE TO LANDSLIPS DURING HEAVY RAINFALL. IN CROWDED SQUATTER SETTLEMENTS COULD CAUSE CASUALTIES.
WHICH WERE PARTICULARLY EVEN SMALL LANDSLIPS
THE GCO'S LANDSLIP MAJORITY OF THE SQUATTER THE NECESSARY LARGE SCALE WORKS
THESE SLOPES COULD NOT BE RECTIFIED UNDER PREVENTIVE MEASURES PROGRAMME BECAUSE THE HUTS NEEDED TO BE CLEARED COULD BE CARRIED OUT.
BEFORE
I
HOUSING IT WAS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE GCO RECOMMENDED TO THE
SUCH SLOPES. BUT THESE DEPARTMENT THAT SQUATTERS BE CLEARED FROM
CAPACITY OF CLEARANCES COULD OBVIOUSLY ONLY BE UNDERTAKEN WITHIN THE THE GOVERNMENT'S HOUSING PROGRAMME.
CLEARED FOR
OUT ON AREAS, WHICH NEW
SUBSEQUENTLY, LARGE SCALE CLEARANCES HAVE BEEN CARRIED STEEP HILLSIDES SUCH AS LAM TIN AND SHAU KEI WAN. THESE
RAINSTORM, THE
1982 MAY WERE HIT BADLY BY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
SINCE
WERE
SQUATTER
CLEARANCES BEGAN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT'S
NEW SQUATTER HUTS FROM PREVENTION TEAMS HAVE EFFECTIVELY PREVENTED BEING ERECTED ON HILLSIDES.
IN THE MEANTIME THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT CONTINUES SQUATTER AREA IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES IN SELECTED LOCATIONS.
то UNDERTAKE
'THESE SCHEMES