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INFORMATION

UME MINH GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

SERVICES BULLETIN

Friday, August 25, 1972

LOW COST HOUSING BLOCK FOR KOWLOON

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A Government low cost housing block will be built in Tung Tau

Tauan Road, Kowloon, to provide homes for about 3,400 people.

The block will be erected on a hill slope close to the Tung Tau

Resettlement Estate where more than 65,000 people are housed.

Because of the nature of the site, the block will vary in height

from two to 10 storeys.

It will comprise one low shop and domestic building with an

eight-storey block on top. There will also be modular markets, recreational

grounds and car parks.

This block is part of an overall housing schene in northeast

Kowloon, which, when completed, will house 20,000 people. To implement

the scheme, about 17,000 residents of the Tung Tau Cottage Area, which

is the proposed site, have been resettled in the Tez Wan Shan Resettlement

Estate.

Tung Tau Tsuen Road will also be widened to become an important

link road in northeast Kowloon.

Site formation for the low cost housing block is already in hand,

and construction will probably begin in late October. It should be ready

for occupation by mid-1974.

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