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Sunday, April 29, 1973

SHEK KIP MET REHOUSING PROJECT

Start of Phase Two

The second phase of the Shek Kip Mei rehousing project will start tomorrow (April 30). In the first phase which was completed on April 27, more than 11,000 domestic tenants and 44 shopkeepers were transferred to

Pak Tin Estate from 6 blocks (No. 23-28) in Shek Kip Mei Estate.

These blocks have now been handed over to P.W.D. and tenders for

carrying out conversion works will shortly be invited.

In the second phase, Block 3 and 4 are affected. Block 4 will be

converted into self-contained flats. Block 3 will be demolished to make way

for the construction of a road linking Berwick Street and Woh Chai Street to

improve traffic conditions for the future Shek Kip Mei Estate.

The 5,000 domestic tenants and 25 shopkeepers in these 2 blocks

will be transferred to Pak Tin Estate.

Workshop operators will be offered

temporary workshop spaces and will be eventually accommodated in the specially

built workshop block which is being built near Block 18 Shek Kip Mei Estate.

Re-provisioning arrangerents for business premises for the shopkeepers

will be on a 'foot-for-foot' basis similar to that offered to shopkeepers in the

first phase. The second phase is expected to be completed in four months,

We are

Mr. John Walden, Deputy Head of the Housing Department said:

extremely pleased with the way the first phase has gone. To assist almost

12,000 people to voluntarily move their homes and businesses from one place to

another without having to evict a single family is a pretty tough job.

"It shows