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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY BEA⭑

PRESS RELEASE

新聞稿

MORE ESTATES TO BE BUILT IN TSUEN WAN

THURSDAY, December 4, 1975

Five public housing estates are being built and another one has just been completed in the Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung area of Kowloon, These housing projects will eventually provide homes for about 137,000 people.

Mr. Ian Lightbody, Secretary for Housing; Mr. Donald P.H. Liao, Director of Housing and Mr. H.M.G. Forsgate, Mr. V.O. Roberts and Mr. CHEUNG Yan-lung, members of the Building Committee of the Housing Authority, made a site visit this (Thursday) morning to see building works being carried out there,

Tsing Yi Island will have a population of some 125,000 in public housing by 1985.

The party inspected the building progress of the first public housing estate on the Island,

The project, comprising four twin-tower blocks and one slab block, will house some 23,000 people on completion in early 1977.

The group then visited the Cheung Shan Estate site where levelling

and other site formation work is going ahead.

This estate will provide housing to about 12,500 people when finished in 1979.

The inspection tour ended with a visit to Li Muk Shue Estate where new flats for nearly 19,000 people have recently been completed and Ha Kwai Chung Estate where public housing blocks are being erected on a terraced slope commanding a panoramic view of Tsuen Wan/Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island.

Construction of Ha Kwai Chung Estate is progressing well and the first housing units for 5,000 people should be ready for occupation during the first half of next year.

The estate will be able to house about 19,000 people when fully developed in 1977.