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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1978

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87 BUILDING PLANS APPROVED LAST MONTH

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TOTAL OF 87 NEW BUILDING PLANS WERE APPROVED IN SEPTEMBER BY THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, COMPARED WITH 61 IN THE SAME MONTH LAST YEAR.

THIS BROUGHT TO 570, THE NUMBER OF BUILDING PLANS APPROVED FOR THE FIRST NINE MONTHS THIS YEAR.

OF THE 87 NEW PLANS APPROVED, 31 WERE FOR BUILDINGS ON HONG KONG ISLAND, 16 FOR KOWLOON AND 40 FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES.

THEY INCLUDED PLANS FOR A NUMBER OF APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, THREE SCHOOLS IN KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES, A MARINE SCIENCE LABORATORY AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, AND A BUDDHIST TEMPLE ON LANTAU ISLAND.

THE TOTAL DECLARED COST OF NEW BUILDINGS COMPLETED DURING THE MONTH WAS $339.6 MILLION, COMPARED WITH $219.8 MILLION LAST YEAR.

THE TOTAL USABLE FLOOR AREA OF NEW BUILDINGS COMPLETED DURING LAST MONTH AMOUNTED TO 281,473 SQUARE METRES, COMPRISING 148,926 SQUARE METRES OF NON-DOMESTIC FLOOR AREA AND 132,548 SQUARE METRES OF DOMESTIC FLOOR AREA.

DURING THE MONTH, THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE GAVE CONSENT FOR WORK TO START ON 45 NEW BUILDING PROJECTS, INCLUDING SEVERAL FACTORY AND WORKSHOP BUILDINGS, A DENTAL TECHNICAL BUILDING IN CHEONG WAN ROAD, KOWLOON AND A SCHOOL BUILDING IN SAI YEUNG CHOI STREET, KOWLOON.

A TOTAL OF 52 NEWLY COMPLETED BUILDINGS WERE CERTIFIED FOR OCCUPATION DURING THE MONTH, INCLUDING A SCHOOL WITH DORMITORY IN POK FU LAM ROAD, THE SCOUT HEADQUARTERS IN OF KWAN ROAD, A DANGEROUS GOODS STORE IN TO KWA WAN ROAD, AND A STUDENT HOSTEL AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE ALSO CONSENTED TO THE DEMOLITION OF 103 BUILDINGS.