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eventually from the present 1,500 persons per acre to about 1,200 persons per acre, with a full range of commercial, educational and community facilities. I might mention that in this particular redevelopment the Authority owes its thanks to the Urban Council for handing over a small playground area to allow of a better building layout. This will eventually result in a much improved provision of playground facilities and there will be 4 acres of recreational space in the final layout as.... against the present 1 acres. The capital cost of this first stage is $18 million.

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The Tai Hang Tung redevelopment proposals which the Committee studied provide for a third phase of reprovisioning at this old estate. Construction work on the first phase, providing several new blocks of flats, is, going ahead and will be completed next July, while piling, works for the second phase should be finished next month. These initial phases when finished by September 1979 will provide self-contained, flats for about 12,000 people. This is a very overcrowded estate indeed with a present density of about 1,800 persons per, açre. The new density will be about 1,100 persons per acre, with a very generous provision of open space. The capital cost of these first three phases will be about 354 million..v

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Another exciting scheme which the Building Committee approved at its last meeting was the first stage layout of a new Housing Authority estate at Area 27 of Tuen Mun. By the Authority's standards this is a small estate, for about 9,000 people, and will be completed by 1979/00 at a cost of about $35 million. There is already a very large estate under construction for the Authority at Tuen un by the Public Works Department; this is the Tai Hing state, the first stage of which will house about 26,000 persons.

The Building Committee also awarded at that meeting a number of contracts to tenderers for the provision of lifts in the new estate at Ngau hi Wan - the 12 lifts in this estate will cost over $3 million and for metal doors and other fittings in the new Lai Yiu state and the Wah Fu Extension.

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