MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1989
BUILT
BE GONE AND
BY THE LAND
"MOST OF THE OLD YAU MA TEI WILL LARGER COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENTS CORPORATION HE SAID.
IN EAST KOWLOON. MR BARNES SAUÐ. LARGER AREAS OF WOULD SURROUND THE OLD KAT TAK RUNWAY AND FORM A MASS OF EQUAL TO THE SIZE OF KOWLOON PENINSULA NOW,
IN THE AREAS BEHIND THE AIRPORT. WITH HEIGHT RELEASED AND MODIFIED. THE SKYLINE OF KOWLOON WILL BE MAJOR REPLANNING WILL BE HAVING SOME EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENT. HE SAID.
REPLACED BY DEVELOPMENT
RECLAMATION LAND ALMOST
LIMITS THEN CHANGING AND
THE GENERAL
BESIDES. A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF OLDER PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES IN THE NORTHEAST KOWLOON WOULD BE REPLACED BY MODERN ESTATES WITH MORE CONCENTRATED AND BETTER SHOPPING CENTRES AND AMENITY AREAS.
THE CENTRE OF KWỤN TONG WOULD LOOK MORE SHABBY AND OBSOLETE AS THE ESTATES AROUND IT WERE PROGRESSIVELY REDEVELOPED WITH MORE MODERN COMPLEXES.
MOVING A LITTLE FURTHER ON FROM KWUN TONG. TSEUNG KWAN 0 WILL BE ALMOST FULLY DEVELOPED WHICH COULD WELL BE THE MOST PLEASANT NEW TOWN IN HONG KONG.
ON PLANNING FOR EFFICIENT MODERN INDUSTRIAL AREAS. MR BARNES SAID: "I THINK THAT IN 10 YEARS' TIME WE WILL ONLY BE BEGINNING TO SOLVE THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF RENEWAL OF THE URBAN INDUSTRIAL AREAS.
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HE SAID THIS COULD BE ACHIEVED EITHER BY EXTENSION OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION'S WORK TO INDUSTRY OR THROUGHL SOME OTHER AGENCY AND THAT THE SITUATION IN THEM WAS LIKELY TO BE FAR FROM TIDY.
ON HONG KONG ISLAND. MR BARNES SAID THE CENTRE P BUSINESS WOULD PROBABLY HAVE MOVED INTO THE TAMAR AREA.
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APART FROM THE CENTRAL AND WAN CHAT RECLAMATION KILICH IS VERY LARGE. CHANGES ARE LIKELY TO BE LOCAL AND MAY WELL BE IN THE HANDS OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WHICH WILL TRANSFORM THE WESTERN END OF CENTRAL. AND TO A LESSER EXTENT. WAN CHAI. HE SAID.
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ANOTHER IMPORTANT FEATURE. MR BARNES SAID. WOULD BE MORE HARBOUR LINKS INCLUDING RAIL LINKS.
"BOTH THE CENTRAL AND WAN CHAI DEVELOPMENT AND THE AIRPORT PREDICATE CROSS HARBOUR RAIL LINKS. WHICH WHEN DEVELOPED. WILL MAKE HONG KONG INTO A MUCH MORE RAIL-DEPENDENT CITY THAN IT IS NOW.
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EVEN ABERDEEN SHOULD HAVE SOME KIND OF A RAIL LINK BY THEN. WHICH SHOULD HELF STIMULATE DEVELOPMENT IN POK FU LAM AND BELCHER'S BAY. HE SAID.
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