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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1985

DEVELOPMENTS PLANS FOR CHAI WAN UNVEILED

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MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PLANS ARE ON STREAM FOR CHAI WAN OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS IN HOUSING, EDUCATION AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, ASSISTANT DISTRICT OFFICER FOR EASTERN, DR SIMON VICKERS, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

SPEAKING AT THE OPEN DAY OF THE MARDEN FOUNDATION CARITAS PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL, DR VICKERS SAID CHAI WAN WAS THE FASTEST DEVELOPING AREA OF HONG KONG, AND WITH THE OPENING OF THE ISLAND EASTERN CORRIDOR AND THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY ISLAND LINE TRANSPORT LINKS BETWEEN CHAI WAN AND OTHER AREAS HAVE IMPROVED CONSIDERABLY.

IN LINE WITH THIS, HE SAID, HOUSING WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN QUANTITY AS WELL AS ́ QUALITY.' IN THE CHAI WAN SOUTH AREAS, THERE WAS THE WAN TSUI ESTATE PHASE 3 HOUSING PROJECT FOR 7 000 PEOPLE, THE INTAKE OF WHICH WOULD BEGIN NEXT YEAR; AND ANOTHER LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE SITUATED NEAR YUE WAN ESTATE WOULD BE BUILT TO HOUSE 9 500 PEOPLE BY 1988.

IN ADDITION, TWO PRIVATE HOUSING PROJECTS AT GREENWOOD TERRACE AND NEPTUNE TERRACE WOULD ACCOMMODATE ABOUT 15 000 RESIDENTS, WHILE THERE WERE ALSO PLANS FOR PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS AT THE TWO MTR STATION PODIUMS IN CHAI WAN.

TURNING TO EDUCATION, DR VICKERS SAID A TECHNICAL INSTITUTE WOULD BE BUILT SOUTH OF HENG FA TSUEN AND RECRUITMENT WOULD START IN 1987 FOR CRAFT COURSES FOR FORM THREE GRADUATES AND TECHNICAL COURSES FOR FORM FIVE GRADUATES.

THE MODERN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE COULD ACCOMMODATE NEARLY 10 000 FULL-TIME, PART-TIME EVENING AND PART-TIME DAY RELEASE STUDENTS.

ON RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, HE SAID THAT IN ADDITION TO THE SWIMMING POOL COMPLEX IN THE AREA, AN INDOOR GAMES HALL WOULD BE BUILT ABOVE THE YUE WAN MARKET‍ AND CARPARK BUILDING TO PROVIDE MUCH NEEDED RECREATION FACILITIES IN THE DISTRICT.

THIS $20 MILLION PROJECT IF APPROVED BY THE URBAN COUNCIL WOULD START NEXT YEAR AND BE COMPLETED IN 1988, DR VICKERS SAID.

AS FOR LITTLE SAI WAN, CONSTRUCTION OF A PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE HAD ALREADY STARTED AND MAJOR RECLAMATION WORKS WOULD BE CARRIED OUT TO PROVIDE LAND FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AND A WATERFRONT PARK.

DR VICKERS SAID IT WAS ANTICIPATED THAT THE PROJECTED POPULATION FOR LITTLE SAI WAN, WHEN FULLY DEVELOPED BY THE END OF 1990'S, WOULD BE ABOUT 35 000.

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