Saturday, August 11, 1973
CLEANSING OPERATION IN CHAI WAN ESTATE
A massive tidy-up and hawker resiting operation is to be launched
next week at Chai Wan Estate to make it a better and healthier place
to live in.
The first phase of the operation involving blocks 16 and 19
and the areas around them will begin on Monday (August 13).
Over 100 illegal structures in the area will be demolished,
Illegal extensions such as oversized sunshades protruding from ground
floor shops will also be removed.
About 40 hawkers trading in the vicinity will be moved into
a temporary resite area at block 17.
The ground between block 16 and 19 will then be resurfaced.
All eligible hawkers will move back to the original trading area in
about six weeks when it has been properly marked out into a hawker bazaar,
lir. Lo Chi-yuen, District Estate Manager (South) of the Housing
Department said the operation was aimed at improving the living condition
of the tenants of the old estates.
"Apart from causing obstructions to tenants, the illegal hawker
stalls and other structures have made cleansing work difficult and at
the same time they pose a serious fire and health hazard to the estate
tenants," he said.
"The estate would be turned into a slum area if no determined
action was taken in time."
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