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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #DBSA⭑

PRESS

RELEASE TH

新聞稿

Tuesday, 12th October 1976

OVER 3,000 APPLICANTS ON WAITING LIST

SEEK PUBLIC HOUSING MATS AT TUEN MUN

More than 3,000 families have applied through the Housing

Department's waiting list for public housing accommodation at Tai Hing

Estate in the developing new town of Tuen Mun.

The $160 million estate, which is being built in two stages

by the Public Works Department for the Housing Authority, is expected

to take in its first tenants in the latter half of next year,

Tuen Mun, which is on the south-west coast of the New Territories,

already has a population of about 50,000.

Factories and private residential blocks are currently under

construction in this area as well as a major highway linking it with

Kowloon. By 1985, the population of Tuen Mun is expected to grow to

about 460,000 with the majority living in public housing estates.

At least half a dozen sites have been earmarked for public

housing estates at Tuen Mun and Housing Department architects have begun

working on the initial layout and design. These estates are planned to

accommodate about 250,000 people.

Construction of Stage I of Tai Hing Estate is progressing

smoothly. It comprises three 30-storey cruciform blocks, a low block,

three primary schools and a portion of the commercial centre.

The domestic blocks, with about 4,500 self-contained flats, will

house about 29,000 people.

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