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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1987

THERE

WERE BIG

HE NOTED, HOWEVER, THAT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIGHT BECOME A COMPETING WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN AREAS COULD PERHAPS OPERATE MORE EFFICIENTLY.

CAREFUL

NOT TO

CONCERNS THAT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION WHERE PRIVATE DEVELOPERS

ALLOW

"WE

THE MUST BR CORPORATION TO GROW MORE THAN IS NECESSARY," HE SAID.

HE

LAND

DEVELOPMENT

KEPT

SMALL AND ASSEMBLY OF TO DO SO. AFTER SHOULD BEST BE UNDERTAKEN AS

BE SHOULD CORPORATION NOTED THAT THE EFFICIENT. "ITS MAJOR FUNCTION SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE LAND WHERE AND WHEN PRIVATE DEVELOPERS ARE UNABLE PROJECTS THIS 18

INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT DONE, DELEGATED, WHERE POSSIBLE, TO PRIVATE DEVELOPERS OR BE JOINT VENTURES WITH THEM.

"AS IN OUR HOUSING

SECTOR SHOULD BE

CORPORATION THAT THE

PRIVATE SHOULD,

QUALITY

AND

RESOURCES FROM THE PROGRAMME, TO THE EXPLOITED

FULL. THE

ENSURE ROLE TO MONITORING OBJECTIVES OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WILL BE MET."

HOWEVER, KEEP A

HIS OWN OBSERVATION WAS ON NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT, MR HO SAID

ON HAD, PLANNERS

THE

ENJOYED WHOLE, THAT HONG KONG'S TOWN

SO THAT CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS IN THE MASTER-PLANNING OF THE NEW TOWNS

WITH THE

MIX RIGHT COMMUNITIES THEY WERE SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL, WORK PLACES, EDUCATIONAL AND PUBLIC FACILITIES.

CO-ORDINATION

SHORTCOMINGS, IF ANY, HAD BREN IN THE TIMELY VARIOUS FACILITIES AS RESIDENTS MOVED INTO THE NEW TOWNS, HE NOTED.

"1 MUST ADMIT THAT THIS 19 A VERY DIFFICULT

OF

OF

PROCESS INVOLVING IN PROGRAMMING AND CO-ORDINATION THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF SENSITIVITY BETWEEN VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, THE HOUSING IS USUALLY THE PRIME MOVER OF RESIDENTS, AND THE PRIVATE SAID.

AUTHORITY, WHICH SECTOR, HE

[

RECENT

DECISION

DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH PHASES OF JUNK BAY

HE ADDED

THAT

THE

POPULATION OF

325,000

PEOPLE

SYSTEM SHOULD BE PLANNED, IN TUNNEL.

WITH

THE

TO GO AHEAD то ACCOMMODATE ITS ULTIMATE THAT MEANT

TIMELY PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO THE ADDITION

TWIN-TUBED

JUNK

BAY

HO

SAID THIS

WAS AN AREA WHICH

ON TRANSPORT SERVICES, MR NEEDED CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT TO KEEP PACE WITH HONG KONG'S DEVELOPMENT.

LION ROCK TUNNEL WAS ANOTHER THE CURRENT CONGESTION AT THE LESSON IN PLANNING THE FUTURE TRANSPORT SYSTEM, HE SAID.

MANY YEARS AWAY WE MAY "IF WE DO NOT HEED THIS LESSON, NOT

BAY HAVE TO SCRATCH OUR HEADS TO SOLVE TRAFFIC CONGESTION AT THE JUNK TUNNEL OR ON THE TUEN MUN HIGHWAY."

ANOTHER AREA ...........