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Thursday, January 15, 1976

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He noted that a secondary school was also being built outside the

This school would serve the whole district.

estate boundary.

Mr. Ku said the planning of centralised facilities for the future

estate residents had enabled a more generous allocation of open space for

the area.

Nearly four acres of open space would be provided in and around the

estate to cater for the recreational needs of the residents. There would

include two rest gardens and children's playgrounds.

To enable tenants and nearby fesidents to go about their daily shopping

activities couveniently, the P.W.D. architects have designed a large market

and carpark complex next to the estate.

"This shopping complex," Mr. Ku said, "will be of a higher standard

to make up for the rather inadequate commercial and marketing facilities in

the adjacent older estates."

Two footbridges would be built over Chri Wan Rood to provide casy

access for residents of the old Chai Wan Estate to make use of the shopping

facilities and other amenities of the now estate.

The market complex, to be managed by the Urban Services Department,

would provide 59 large and 356 mini-stalls, complete with washing, scalding,

storage and refuse disposal facilities. Provision has also been made for 20

cooked-food stalls with a centralised func-extracting system.

Incorporated in the complex would be a library, U.S.D. registration

offices and a carpark.

Mr. Ku said it was intended initially to build only two floors of the

carpark providing spaces for 225 cars, but allowance would be made to extend

it at a later stage to provide another 327 parking spaces.

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