THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1991
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BUILDINGS IN TO KWA WAN AND TAI PO DECLARED DANGEROUS
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THE BUILDING AUTHORITY TODAY (THURSDAY) DECLARED THE BUILDINGS AT NOS. 99 AND 101 PAU CHUNG STREET, TO KWA WAN TO BE DANGEROUS AND THE BUILDINGS AT NOS. 103 AND 105 LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS.
IN A STATEMENT ISSUED THIS MORNING, THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT 1955 WERE BUILDING SURVEYOR (PGBS) SAID THE BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED IN FIVE-STOREY REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES WITH BRICK INFILL PANEL WALLS.
THE BUILDINGS AT NOS. 99 AND 101 PAU CHUNG STREET
WITH ADVANCED STAGE OF DETERIORATION
SEVERELY SPALLED REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS AND WERE LIABLE TO COLLAPSE.
IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE BEYOND REASONABLE ECONOMIC SHOULD BE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED.
WERE AT AN AND CRACKED
REPAIR AND
THE PGBS POINTED OUT THAT NOS. 103 AND 105 OF PAU CHUNG STRBET NOT WITHSTAND WERE ALSO IN A MARKED STATE OF DETERIORATION AND COULD THE DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDINGS AT NOS. 99 AND 101 OF THE SAME STREET.
THESE BUILDINGS SHOULD ALSO BE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED BECAUSE THEY WERE LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS, HE SAID.
NOTICES OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR CLOSURE ORDERS FROM THE KONG DISTRICT COURT ON MARCH 21 WERE POSTED ON THE BUILDINGS.
HONG
NO.
MEANWHILE, THE AUTHORITY HAS ALSO DECLARED THE BUILDING AT
OF THE 10 YAN HING STREET IN TAI PO TO BE DANGEROUS AND NOS. 4 AND 6 SAME STREET LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS.
THE PGBS SAID THE VACANT STRUCTURES WERE TWO-STOREY PRE-WAR
AND MASONRY BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED OF LOADBEARING BRICK
WALLS, WITH AND WITH TIMBER FLOORS AND TILTED PITCHED-ROOFS FOR THE MAIN BLOCKS, REINFORCED CONCRETE FLOORS AND ROOFS FOR THE REAR BLOCKS.
THE BUILDING AT NO. 10 YAN HING STRERT WAS IN AN ADVANCED THE COCKLOFTS AND STAGE OF DILAPIDATION. THE STRUCTURAL TIMBERS FOR THE FIRST FLOOR HAD PARTIALLY COLLAPSED.
THE MASONRY WALL FACING THE REAR LANE WAS IN POOR CONDITION. IT WAS DANGEROUS AND SHOULD BE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED.
OF HAD
WERE ALSO NOS. 4 AND 6 OF YAN HING STREET
SIGNS SHOWING DETERIORATION. THE STRUCTURAL TIMBERS FOR THE COCKLOFTS AND ROOFS PARTIALLY COLLAPSED.
THE BUILDINGS
THERE WERE AREAS OF EXTENSIVE SPALLED CONCRETE. WERE LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS AND SHOULD BE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED.
THE STRUCTURE AT NO. 8 YAN HING STREET HAD BEEN RENDERED DANGEROUS AS A RESULT OF A FIRE AND WAS CLOSED UNDER EMERGENCY POWERS IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR.
/HE SAID