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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1988

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REVIEW UNDERTAKEN ON TSING YI INSTALLATIONS

ON

FUTURE APPLICATIONS FOR POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS INSTALLATIONS

OF A REVIEW TSING YI ISLAND WILL NOT BE PROCESSED UNTIL THE RESULTS

TAKEN A VIEW ON SUCH INSTALLATIONS ARE KNOWN AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS

THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, ON THESE, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, REITERATED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE

HON RICHARD

LAI, MR BARNES

FOR ISLAND, OF TSING YI THAT POINTED OUT

DEVELOPMENT THE RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES, WAS BASED UPON A PARTICULAR STRATEGY.

BOTH

ALL THE RESIDENTIAL

THIS STRATEGY PLACED THE TOWN CENTRE AND

AND THE SITES IN THE NORTH-EAST OF THE ISLAND, NEAREST TO TSUEN WAN,

SOUTH AND THE WEST; AND THEY WERE WELL INDUSTRIAL SITES IN THE

SEPARATED BY THE INTERVENING LAND FEATURES.

"THE SITING OF POTENTIALLY

HAZARDOUS NOT INCOMPATIBLE COMPETING

WESTERN SIDE OF TSING YI IS

DEMANDS USES ON THE EAST, AND THESE LONG AS WE ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PHI'S DO NOT DANGER TO THE INHABITANTS, MR BARNES SAID.

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INSTALLATIONS ON THE

WITH

THE RESIDENTIAL

ARE POSE

RECONCILABLE AS

ANY SIGNIFICANT

OF THE REVIEW ON "THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDERTAKING AN UPDATING

WHERE WE NOW STAND AND TO ADDRESS PHI'S ON TSING YI, TO LOOK AT

SO-CALLED 'CUMULATIVE EFFECTS' ON SPECIFICALLY THE QUESTION OF THE TRAFFIC AND SO ON.'

TSING

MR BARNES ALSO SAID THE POPULATION CURRENTLY PLANNED FOR YI WAS 191,000, AND THERE WERE NOW NEARLY 100,000 PEOPLE LIVING ON THE ISLAND.

WILL ALL IN

TAKE PLACE IN GROWTH "THE FUTURE NORTH-EASTERN TSING YI AND THERE IS NO RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF

SOUTHERN PART OF THE SORT PROPOSED IN THE WESTERN OR ADDED.

POPULATION

ANY

[

ISLAND,

HE

ONE BILL PASSED * * * *

THE MARINE FISH (MARKETING) (AMENDMENT) BILL IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

1987 WAS PASSED

DEBATE ON THEM (AMENDMENT) BILL SERVICES

THREE OTHER BILLS WERE READ A SECOND TIME AND WAS ADJOURNED. THESE WERE THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS 1988, DISTRICT BOARDS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988 AND CORRECTIONAL DEPARTMENT (POWERS OF ARREST) BILL 1988.

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