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Wednesday, September 26, 1973

TENANTS' CO-OPERATION VITAL IN ESTATE IMPROVEMENT

Residents of housing estates have an important role to play

in efforts to improve their environment, Mr. Frank Carroll, Director

of Estates lianagement of the Housing Department, said today.

Speaking at a Lions Club luncheon, Mr. Carroll said the newly

formed Housing Authority was getting on with the task of introducing

improvements to the former resettlement estates but "the difficulty of

making immediate physical improvements, especially in the older estatos,

is very great."

He added, however, that work started by the former Resettlement

Department was being continued and expanded.

"'Improvements to public lighting in the corridors and public

places have already been started and we are seeking to extend the care-

taker system to most estates," he said. "At the same time we are going on

with the demolition or removal of unauthorised structures and general

tidying up of opon spaces in estates to make them more useful to residents."

Mr. Carroll said the Housing Authority was particularly anxious

to support the "Clean Our Buildings" campaign and a massive two-month block

by block cleansing operation was being carried out to coincide with it.

In the first three weeks of the campaign 470 lorry loads of

junk were removed from estates and in the older ones alone an estimated

30,000 old posters were removed.

/He pointed