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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1991
LDC DEVELOPMENT SCHEME PLAN APPROVED
COUNCIL HAS RECENTLY THE EXECUTIVE
APPROVED THE WING ROAD CENTRAL STREET/QUEEN'S
DEVELOPMENT
WHICH SCHEME PLAN, PREPARED BY THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LDC) FOR THE PURPOSE URBAN RENEWAL.
THE LDC
LOK
IS
OF
UNDER
THE PLAN IS THE SECOND OF ITS KIND PREPARED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ORDINANCE THIS YEAR FOR THE FOLLOWING THE APPROVAL OF A SIMILAR PLAN EARLIER QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL/JUBILEE STREET AREA IN CENTRAL.
FOR
THE
BY
PROVIDE A THE PURPOSE OF THESE DEVELOPMENT SCHEME PLANS IS TO FRAMEWORK
THE REDEVELOPMENT OF
AREAS CONCERNED
THE RESTRUCTURING
EXISTING LAND USE PATTERNS AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS.
ROAD THE WING LOK STREET/QUEEN'S
CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME AT THE FRINGE OF PLAN COVERS AN AREA OF ABOUT 0.72 HECTARE LOCATED CENTRAL DISTRICT.
AND BONHAM
THE LATE. EAST BY WING
TO THE SOUTH IT IS BOUNDED BY QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL STRAND; TO THE WEST BY A GROUP OF BUILDINGS MOSTLY BUILT IN SEVENTIES; TO THE NORTH BY WING LOK STREET; AND TO THE WO STREET.
CHARACTER THE AREA HAS A DISTINCTIVE
DRAWN FROM ITS NARROW AREA WHICH LANEWAYS AND THE WHOLESALE
IS INVOLVED IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE TRADES SUCH AS THE EGG AND PRESERVED EGG TRADING MARKET.
ALMOST HALF OF THE EXISTING BUILDINGS WITHIN THE AREA UP OF PRE-WAR BUILDINGS.
IS
MADE
PART OF THE AREA IS GOVERNMENT LAND, MUCH OF WHICH IS OCCUPIED BY TEMPORARY STRUCTURES; THE REMAINDER IS USED AS A SITTING-OUT AREA AND A PUBLIC TOILET. THEY ARE GENERALLY IN DILAPIDATED CONDITION.
AND RIPE ALTHOUGH LYING AT THE FRINGE OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT
THE AREA HAS BEEN FOR REDEVELOPMENT, SATISFACTORY REDEVELOPMENT IN
EXISTING INHIBITED BY A NUMBER OF FACTORS INCLUDING THE SMALL SIZE OF LOTS AND FRAGMENTED OWNERSHIP.
THE PRESENCE OF A MASS TRANSIT COMPLICATES THE REDEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
ACCORDING TO THE DEVELOPMENT SCHEME REDEVELOPED IN A COMPREHENSIVE MANNER.
RAILWAY RESERVE ALSO
PLAN, THE
AREA
WILL BE
SPACE
PURPOSE,
THE
OPEN
DEVELOPMENT COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL
FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY A COOKED
APART FROM ALLOWING LAND FOR PUBLIC
MAKE DESIGN WILL
PROVISION FOR OF WITH A RANGE
GOVERNMENT, INSTITUTION INCLUDING GOVERNMENT OFFICE ACCOMMODATION, PUBLIC TOILET AND A MARKET.
FOOD CENTRE, A
/THE DEVELOPMENT