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Tuesday, July 25, 1972
SECOND SQUATTER CLEARANCE FOR LUNG CHEUNG ROAD PROJECT
DER ER VERH
Some 180 huts are to be demolished in the second phase of a squatter
clearance operation connected with a major road project along the Kowloon foothills.
The clearance, to take place on August 15 at Yuen Ling Village,
Diamond Hill, will involve about 240 families, consisting of more than 1,200
people.
The squatters will be given resettlement in Lan Tin or Sau Ma Ping
Estates. On top of resettlement, cultivators and shop operators have been
given ex gratia payments totalling $200,000. Cultivators are also being given
crop compensation.
Seventeen factory operators have been allocated units in the department's
resettlement flatted factories.
Of the 240 families, about 100 have already moved and others are
expected to follow soon. Twenty families occupying illegal structures will be
accommodated in a licensed area.
The improvement works for Lung Cheung Road will cut across Tai Hom
and Yuen Ling Village and will link the two industrial complexes of Kwun Tong
and Kwai Chung.
Construction of the vital project had been delayed for more than three
years by squatters refusing to leave the land.
Under the road improvement scheme, Lung Cheung Road will be widened
to provide two lanes in each direction and all existing intersections will be
replaced by flyovers thereby eliminating all junction holdups.
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