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4.
The plans allow for one living room, a kitchen,
w.c. and small balcony in each flat. This is considered desirable to be the minimum
health and social grounds and is preferred to a cheaper
standard of accommodati
modation/on
form of barrack accommodation with communal kitchen,
bathrooms and w.c.'s on each floor. The plan is designed
to allow for the maximum through ventilation and is
sufficiently strong to withstand typhoon conditions
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without being extravagant. Sketch plans of the flats and
the Colonial office available The design of the flats
of the layout are
has been made by the Acting Chief Architect, Hong
Kong Government, assisted by advice from a Committee on
which are representatives of the Public Works Department,
Medical and Health Services, Labour and Social Welfare
Departments, as well as a number of unofficial ladies and
gentlemen who include among their number two leading
Chinese property owners and "r. S. E. Faber, a Consulting
Engineer in private practice. The total cost of the
group of 190 flats is estimated at $1,132,968, including
$120,000 for site formation and 6% of the building costs
only for architects' fees. The corresponding figure for
the group of 180 flats is $1,076,500 including
$96,000 for site formation and the same scale of architect
fees. These figures do not include the value of the land
which is $293,700 and $207,080 in each case and which it
is proposed should be recovered over the duration of
the lease in annual instalments with interest.
5. In order to make a start with this scheme at the
earliest possible date, it is proposed that the Public
Works Department should undertake the site formation,
construction of access roads, and installation of water
and drainage, and that the sites, when formed, should be
to supervise constuction
handed over to the Hong Kong Housing Society A
memorandum setting out the aims and objects of this
Society is attached. If these proposals are approved,
/the
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.