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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1988

DISTRICTS TO

IN BE THE

THE GOVERNMENT DECIDED CO-ORDINATION TEAMS (BMCT'S) ASSIST

IN RESIDENTS

IMPROVING ΤΟ CO-ORDINATE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL

THE SCHEME WAS 80 SUCCESSFUL THAT LATE 1984 THAT BUILDING MANAGEMENT ESTABLISHED IN MANAGEMENT OF THEIR BUILDINGS AND ACTION ON MATTERS RELATING TO BUILDING MANAGEMENT.

OF

ONE

HOUSING

MANAGER, EACH BMCT CONSISTED HOUSING MANAGER AND TWO HOUSING ASSISTANTS SECONDED FROM DEPARTMENT.

BOARDS, DISTRICT

ONE ASSISTANT THE HOUSING

CARRIED

OUT

THE TEAMS IDENTIFIED IN CONSULTATION WITH

AND MANAGEMENT, BUILDINGS WHICH SUFFERED FROM POOR ADVISORY AND INSPECTION VISITS TO THESE TARGET BUILDINGS.

THAT AT

PRESENT

SEVERAL

ORDINANCES, BUILDINGS, REQUIRED

MR LAN SAID

UNRELATED ENFORCED BY SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS, APPLIED TO MULTI-STOREY AND THEREFORE A HIGH DEGREE OF INTER-AGENCY CO-OPERATION WAS TO ENSURE A CONCERTED AND EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO ENFORCEMENT.

BY OUT

THE BMCT'S UNDER THE BEING CARRIED THIS ROLE WAS

BUILDING MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION DISTRICT SUPERVISION OF THE

FROM VARIOUS COMMITTEES, WHICH COMPRISED GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

BUILDING MANAGEMENT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN MATTERS.

IN THE TONG

SINCE 1985-86, SEVEN DISTRICT BMCT'S HAD BEEN DEPLOYED EASTERN, WAN CHAI, CENTRAL AND WESTERN, YAU TSIM, MONG KOK, KWUN AND KWAI TSING DISTRICT OFFICES.

THE FIRST FIVE TEAMS DEALT WITH DOMESTIC BUILDINGS, TEAMS IN KWUN TONG AND KWAI TSING CONCENTRATED MAINLY ON MULTI-STOREY INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS.

WHILE THE PROBLEMS IN

THREE MORE TEAMS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN SHAM SHUI PO, CITY AND TSUEN WAN LATER THIS MONTH.

DISTRICT "BY THEN THE 10

SOME MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN MR LAN NOTED.

KOWLOON

1.9

SERVING ABOUT RESIDENTIAL UNITS,

п

TEAMS WILL 475,000 PRIVATE

BE

BROUGHT

CURRENTLY, MR LAN SAID, THERE WERE 219 TARGET BUILDINGS IN TARGET LIST OF THE BMCT'S. SINCE THEIR ESTABLISHMENT IN MAY 1985,

HAD BMCT'S

ABOUT SUBSTANTIAL

BUILDINGS.

IMPROVEMENTS

THE THE IN 74 TARGET

"WE, THEREFORE, INTEND

ΤΟ

EXPAND

THE SCHEME

REMAINING DISTRICTS AS AND WHEN RESOURCES BECOME AVAILABLE,

ΤΟ

COVER THE HE NOTED.

COULD DO

MUCH PARTICULAR

OF

THE

WITH

MR LAN SAID THERE WAS A LIMIT TO WHAT THE GOVERNMENT

"THIS TACKLING

PROBLEM RESPONSIBILITY LIES WITH THE

IN

INDIVIDUAL OWNERS OF PROPERTY.

OF URBAN COMMUNITY

DECAY. AND IN ITSELF,

/"INDEED, IT