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New road proposed for North Point
The Government has proposed to construct a new road between Shell Street and Jupiter Street in North Point to improve traffic flow and to provide an access for a proposed commercial development in the area.
The new road will be about 7.3 metres wide with a 2.5-metre wide footpath on its western side.
A section of Shell Street will have to be temporarily closed, while the footpath linking Shell Street and Jupiter Street will have be closed permanently to facilitate the works.
A Lands Department spokesman said today (Friday) that the Town Planning Board had recently approved amendments to the draft North Point Outline Zoning Plan.
Under the amended plan which was gazetted on December 1, a site at 152-154 Electric Road, which is occupied by the former Causeway Bay Police Station, was rezoned from "Government/Institution/Community" to "Commercial".
"The Government intends to dispose of the site by public auction in the middle (f 1996.
"In view of the foreseeable traffic demand generated from the future commercial development on the site as well as in the vicinity, the Government will require the purchaser of the site under the Conditions of Sale to construct a new road linking Shell Street and Jupiter Street," he said.
A notice of the proposed road works was gazetted today.
The plan of the proposed works can be seen at the Public Enquiry Service Centre of the Central and Western District Office, the Hong Kong East District Lands Office, and the Eastern District Office.
Any person objecting to the works should send his objection in writing to the Secretary for Transport, Central Government Offices, East Wing, second floor, Lower Albert Road, Central not later than February 20, 1996, describing his interest and the manner in which he will be affected.
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