THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1991
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VILLAGE HOUSES IN SAI KUNG DECLARED DANGEROUS
THE BUILDING AUTHORITY HAS DECLARED
THE DANGEROUS AND
BUILDING AT 65 SAI
THE
MAIN ADJOINING
KUNG ROAD, NEW TERRITORIES TO BE BUILDING AT NO. 66, LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS.
STATEMENT TODAY
GOVERNMENT
ARR FLOORS
THE PRINCIPAL (THURSDAY), IN A
TYPE BUILDINGS VILLAGE BUILDING SURVEYOR SAID THE TWO-STOREY GENERALLY CONSTRUCTED OF LOADBEARING MASONRY WALLS WITH TIMBER AND ROOFS.
FIRST
FLOOR AT
THE REAR OF THE HOWEVER, A PORTION OF THE BUILDING AT NO. 65 IS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION.
IT SUBSEQUENT TO RECEIPT OF A COMPLAINT IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR,
GENERALLY IN A WAS FOUND DURING AN INSPECTION THAT THE BUILDING WAS
CONCRETE DILAPIDATED CONDITION WITH SEVERE SPALLING TO THE REINFORCED
OF DEFLECTION REINFORCEMENT AND SLAB EXPOSING DETERIORATED REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM OVER THE MAIN ENTRANCE.
WERE NUMEROUS
THE
VERTICAL CRACKS
AND WERE EITHER
IN THE AREAS OF LOOSE OR
THERE FURTHERMORE, LOADBEARING WALLS AND DEFECTIVE FLOOR AND ROOF JOISTS
PLASTER/RENDERING BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL HAD ALREADY FALLEN AWAY TO EXPOSE THE MASONRY WALLS,
THE OWNER OF THE BUILDING WAS ADVISED THIS YEAR TO UNDERTAKE SUFFICIENT REPAIRS TO TO RENDER THE BUILDING SAFE.
IN WRITING IN JANUARY THE IDENTIFIED DEFECTS
EARLY MAY INDICATED HOWEVER, FURTHER INSPECTIONS IN APRIL AND
OUT AND THE BUILDING HAD FURTHER THAT NO REPAIRS HAD BEEN CARRIED
AND DETERIORATED TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE DANGEROUS SHOULD BE CLOSED AND DEMOLISHED.
IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE BUILDING AT 66 SAI KUNG ROAD WHICH NO. 65, ALTHOUGH NOT IN SUCH AN SHARES A COMMON PARTY-WALL WITH
AS
HAS ADJOINING THE
BUILDING, OF DILAPIDATION ADVANCED STATE
WALLS
AROUND UPPER ESPECIALLY LOADBEARING NUMEROUS CRACKS IN ITS
PARTY-WALL WITH FLOOR WINDOW OPENINGS IN THE FRONT MAIN WALL AND THE NO. 65.
NOT SAFELY IT WAS FELT THAT THE MAIN BUILDING AT NO. 66 COULD
SHOULD BB CLOSED WITHSTAND THE DEMOLITION OF NO. 65 AND THUS IT TOO AND DEMOLISHED AS BEING LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS.
HONG
NOTICES OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR CLOSURE ORDERS FROM THE KONG DISTRICT COURT ON JUNE 6 WERE POSTED ON THE TWO BUILDINGS TODAY.
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