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MORE FLATS FOR PAK TIN ESTATE
Friday, September 8, 1972
About 8,600 people will have new homes when another two domestic
blocks are completed in the Pak Tin estate, Shum Shui Po.
The blocks, one 16 storeys high and the other seven storeys, will
be built to the latest Mark VII design which is similar to the present government low cost housing projects.
A modular market providing places for 40 vegetable and fruit stalls,
and 10 meat, fish and poultry stalls are included in the plans.
A spokesman for the Public Works Department said the total estimated
cost will be about $16 million.
Tenders for the construction are now being called and the work is expected to begin some time next month and take two and a half years to complete.
Pak Tin estate is the first resettlement estate under the management
of the Housing Authority as part of a pilot scheme.
It is also the reception estate for Shek Kip Mei which was the first resettlement estate built after the disastrous Shek Kip Mei fire in 1954. Some of the present tenants were among those made homeless in the fire.
A spokesman for the Resettlement Department said today that some 10,000 tenants of the old Shek Kip Mei estate involved in the first phase of the estate's conversion scheme, will be offered the opportunity of applying for flats in some of the already completed blocks in the Pak Tin estate next month.
These tenants are now residing in six blocks which will be the first to be converted into self-contained units when the conversion scheme starts
next year,
Details of the multi-million dollar scheme will be announced later.
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