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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1989

WE WOULD TRY TO CREATE CONDITIONS HERE

SO

PEOPLE

THAT WANT TO STAY AND ALSO CONDITIONS TO MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO IF THEY WANTED TO, HE SAID.

"THOSE ARE THE PARAMETERS THAT OTHER ONES," THE GOVERNOR ADDED.

WOULD RETURN

WE WORK IN RATHER THAN ANY

LARGEST SQUATTER AREA TO GIVE WAY TO PUBLIC HOUSING

WAN

WEST FOOTHILLS,

THE

AREA BIGGEST SQUATTER

PEOPLE HOMES FOR 18,700 ON BUILT

THE 15 HECTARE SITE

SHAU KEI REMAINING ON HONG KONG ISLAND, WILL BECOME WHEN A NEW PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE IS CLEARED FROM THE SQUATTER VILLAGES.

EIGHT A

COMPLEX,

THE NEW ESTATE, TO DE COMPLETED IN 1995, WILL COMPRISE

COMMERCIAL A 36-STOREY TRIDENT 4 BLOCKS WITH 4921 FLATS, MULTI-STOREY CARPARK, A SECONDARY SCHOOL AND RECREATIONAL AREAS.

A HOUSING AUTHORITY SPOKESMAN SAID

CLEAR THE

WAS BEING MADE TO POPULATION OF 11,500 PEOPLE.

SQUATTER SIX

TODAY THAT' GOOD PROGRESS

A WITH VILLAGES

TOTAL

INVOLVED IN

1 OF PHASE

THE

PER

FAMILIES

HE SAID OF THE 1,840 CLEARANCE SCHEDULED FOR APRIL THIS YEAR, ABOUT 1,400 OR NEARLY 80 CENT HAD ALREADY ACCEPTED REHOUSING OFFERS.

BY THE REHOUSING OF THE REMAINING HOUSEHOLDS WILL BE COMPLETED

ADDING THAT OFFERS TO THOSE THE END OF APRIL, THE SPOKESMAN SAID, LIVING IN THE PHASE 2 AND 3 CLEARANCE AREAS WERE NOW BEING MADE.

ELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC WAN ESTATE IN CHAI HOUSING WERE ALSO BEING

HE POINTED OUT THAT MOST OF THE FAMILIES HOUSING WERE BEING ACCOMMODATED IN THE NEW TSU1 WAN AND THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR URBAN TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATED LOCALLY WITHIN CHAI WAN DISTRICT.

CLEARED BY AUGUST THIS YEAR HOUSING ESTATE IN SHAU OF SHAU KEI WAN

THE SITE WHICH WILL BE TOTALLY WILL BE USED FOR BUILDING THE SECOND PUBLIC KEI WAN, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS AT THE EASTERN PART FOOTHILLS WHERE SITE FORMATION WORK IS NOW IN PROGRESS.

OF OF

COST OF $255.6 THE FORMATION INCLUDE

CONSTRUCTION SLOPES, AND SLOPE AND BOULODER

SITE FORMATION FOR THE WESTERN FOOTHILLS AT A

THE WORK WILL MILLION WILL SOON START.

FILLING OF HOUSING PLATFORMS, CUTTING AND

DRAINAGE, RETAINING WALLS, STABILISATION.

FOR

ROADS AND

TRANSPORTATION

OF

1.6

MILLION

CUBIC

ALSO BE BUILT OF SURPLUS AREA

A SPECIALLY DESIGNED CONVEYER BELT SYSTEM WILL

METRES THE EXCAVATED MATERIALS FROM THE SITE THROUGH THE SHAU KEI WAN URBAN TO ALDRICH BAY.

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