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Tuesday, September 27, 1977

OVER $260 MILLION WORTH OF BUILDINGS COMPLETED IN AUGUST

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The total declared cost of new buildings completed in August

amounted to $260.59 million, according to figures issued today by the

Buildings Ordinance Office of the Fublic Works Department.

This compares with $112.42 million in the same month last year.

The total usable floor area of the new buildings completed

last month amounted to 281,976.8 square metres, comprising 169447.9

square metres of non-domestic floor area and 111,628.9 square metres of

.domestic floor area, quid mi

Plans for a 41-storey (commercial building in Great George Street,

a petrol filling station at Chai Wan, a church and youth centre: at Yuen

Long, a student hostel at the Chinese University and the Cho Yiu Chuen

Estate Centre were amoung:71 building plans approved last month by the war

Buildings Ordinance Office.

Of these plans approved, 25 were for projects on Hong Kong

Island, 15 for Kowloon and 31 for the New Territories.

During the month, the Buildings Ordinance Office gave consent

for work to start on 40 new building projects, including a power station

at the junction of Argyle Street and Shamchun Street, a telephone exchange

at Tsing Yi Island and a school extension at Yuen Long.

Forty-nine completed buildings were certified for occupation

last month. They included a school of nine storeys at the junction of:

Tin Hau Temple Road and Cloud View Road and a petrol service station.

at Pokfulam Road.

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The Buildings Ordinance Office also consented to the demolition

of 43 buildings.

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