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SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1988

SYNAGOGUE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVED

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THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT ROBINSON ROAD, MID-LEVELS, WAS AMONG 56 BUILDING PLANS APPROVED BY THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE IN OCTOBER, 1987.

THE PLAN INVOLVES CONSTRUCTION OF TWO APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL BLOCKS OF SIX AND 42 STOREYS ON THE SITE OF THE SYNAGOGUE.

ALSO APPROVED WERE TWO TRAM DEPOTS FOR THE HONG KONG TRAMWAYS

LIMITED.

STRUCTURE LOCATED

TWO-STOREY ONE OF THE DEPOTS IS A

THE ON WESTERN RECLAMATION NEAR WHITTY STREET, WHILE THE ONE ON THE ALDRICH BAY RECLAMATION IS A SINGLE-STOREY BUILDING.

THIRTY-THREE OF THE APPROVED PLANS WERE FOR APARTMENT, APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS, INCLUDING FIVE IN APARTMENT BLOCKS OF 37 AND 38 STOREYS AT THE TAIKOO RESERVOIR SITE QUARRY BAY AND FIVE APARTMENT/COMMERCIAL BLOCKS OF 36 AND 40 STOREYS AT TEXACO ROAD IN TSUEN WAN.

OF THE PLANS APPROVED, 23 WERE ON HONG KONG KOWLOON AND 20 IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

ISLAND,

13 IN

CONSENT TO START WORK WAS GIVEN ON 64 PROJECTS WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 402,015.8 SQUARE METRES, OF WHICH 195,353.7 SQUARE METRES WERE FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES.

THE DECLARED COST OF NEW BUILDINGS COMPLETED IN THE ABOUT $1,236 MILLION.

MONTH WAS

DURING THE MONTH, THE OFFICE ISSUED A TOTAL OF 38 OCCUPATION 22 IN PERMITS, INCLUDING 11 ON HONG KONG ISLAND, FIVE IN KOWLOON AND THE NEW TERRITORIES.

THIRTY DEMOLITION ORDERS AFFECTING 91 BUILDINGS WERE ISSUED DURING THE MONTH.

THE CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT DIVISION OF ORDINANCE OFFICE RECEIVED 487 COMPLAINTS ABOUT ILLEGAL ILLEGAL BUILDING WORKS, CARRIED OUT REMOVAL ORDERS.

768 INSPECTIONS

THE DANGEROUS BUILDINGS SECTION OBTAINED THREE EMERGENCY CLOSURE ORDERS.

THE BUILDINGS

STRUCTURES OR AND ISSUED 79

INSPECTED

368

BUILDINGS AND

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