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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1987

HK ISLAND HOTEL PROJECT APPROVED BY 8.0.0.

PROPERTIES

A TWO-BLOCK HOTEL/COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SWIRE SALES LIMITED AT SUPREME COURT ROAD ON HONG KONG ISLAND IS AMONG 39 PLANS APPROVED BY THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE IN AUGUST.

ONE BLOCK WILL BE 55 STOREYS AND HAVE 444 ROOMS, OTHER WILL BE 60 STOREYS AND HAVE 572 ROOMS.

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ARE

WHILE THE

APARTMENT + INCLUDING

OF THE PLANS APPROVED,

FOR APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL AND APARTMENT/RESIDENCE DEVELOPMENTS, 28-STOREY BLOCKS AT 466, DES VOEUX ROAD WEST/1-2, CHEUNG KAN LANE, AND 103, ROBINSON ROAD.

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IS A AND 221,

THE TALLEST COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT 37-STOREY COMMERCIAL BLOCK OVER A BASEMENT AT 197-209, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST/42-50, SPRING GARDEN LANE/4-10, SHAN PIN LANB/2-15, TIK LUNG LANE, IN WAN CHAI DISTRICT ON HONG KONG ISLAND.

AT

APPROVAL WAS ALSO GIVEN FOR A TWO-STOREY BUS DEPOT BUILDING

THE TURN THE KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY CORPORATION'S TUEN MUN DEPOT FOR MUN YUEN LONG LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM.

BUILDINGS WERE

PASSED,

FOUR FACTORY RAPIDLY-EXPANDING YUEN LONG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE.

INCLUDING ONE AT THE

OF THE 39 APPROVALS, 15 WERE ON HONG KONG NEW TERRITORIES AND 11 IN KOWLOON.

ISLAND, 13 IN THE

WITH A TOTAL THEY INCLUDED

CONSENT TO START WORK ON 35 PROJECTS WAS GIVEN, AREA OF MORE THAN 295,000 SQUARE METRES. HOTEL/COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS ON QUEENSWAY AND 67-76, GLOUCESTER ROAD.

FLOOR

WAS AUGUST MONTHS OF THE

COMPLETED EIGHT

IN

BUILDINGS THE DECLARED COST OF NEW $742.8 MILLION, BRINGING THE SUM FOR THE FIRST YEAR TO $6.174 BILLION.

THE NUMBER OF

SEVEN ON HONG TERRITORIES.

KONG

OCCUPATION PERMITS ISSUED WAS ISLAND, FOUR IN KOWLOON AND

37,

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INCLUDING

THE IN

NEW

A TOTAL OF 44 DEMOLITION ORDERS AFFECTING 113 BUILDINGS WERE ISSUED DURING THE MONTH. THEY INCLUDED THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUILDING IN MACDONNELL ROAD, HONG KONG.

452 THE CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT DIVISION RECEIVED CARRIED OUT 1,109 INSPECTIONS AND ISSUED 226 ORDERS,

TOTAL THIRD RELATED TO ILLEGAL ROOFTOP STRUCTURES. A WERE VOLUNTARILY COMPLIED WITH DURING THE MONTH, 94 OF TQ ILLEGAL ROOFTOP STRUCTURES.

COMPLAINTS,

OF

WHICH ONE

OF

177 ORDERS WHICH RELATED

BUILDINGS,

THE DANGEROUS BUILDINGS SECTION INSPECTED 341 OBTAINING 20 CLOSURE ORDERS, OF WHICH EIGHT WERE EMERGENCY CLOSURES.

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