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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1991

TWO BUILDINGS IN JUNCTION ROAD DECLARED DANGEROUS

BUILDINGS AT NOS. THE BUILDING AUTHORITY HAS DECLARED THE AND BC LAI CHI YUEN, JUNCTION ROAD, LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS.

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CHI

THE PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING SURVEYOR, SAID NO. 3 LAI YUEN WAS A PRE-WAR DOMESTIC BUILDING WHICH COMPRISED A TWO-STOREY MAIN FLOOR AND BLOCK CONSTRUCTED OF LOADBEARING MASONRY WALLS WITH TIMBER TILTED PITCHED ROOF.

SINGLE-STOREY IT ALSO COMPRISES A

AT THE CONCRETE ROOF AND MASONRY WALLS STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED OF TIMBER AND METAL

STRUCTURE WITH RRINFORCED

AND REAR,

A SINGLE-STOREY SHEETING AT THE FRONT.

CHI NUMBER 8C LAI

YUEN COMPRISES A SINGLE-STOREY STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTED OF TIMBER AND METAL SHEETING, WHICH IS TO THE SIDE WALL OF NO. 3.

DOMESTIC ATTACHED

INSPECTION REVEALED THAT NO. 3

WAS SHOWING

MARKED SIGNS OF

DETERIORATION.

CRACKED THE MASONRY FLANK WALL OF THE MAIN BLOCK APPEARS TO BE

FOR ITS FULL RIGHT THROUGH AT THE JUNCTION WITH THE MAIN FRONT WALL HEIGHT, AND THE FRONT WALL HAS ALSO FRACTURED NEAR WINDOW OPENINGS.

ROOF

AND SHOWING IS

EXCESSIVE DEFLECTION JOISTS HAVE BECOME ROTTEN OR SPLIT AND ARE

THE MEANWHILE, SEVERAL TIMBER ROOF SAGGING.

EXTENSIVE SPALLED CONCRETE AND CRACKED BEAMS ARE FOUND CONCRETE ROOF OF THE SINGLE-STOREY STRUCTURE AT THE REAR.

IN THE

A IN

DILAPIDATED THE SINGLE-STOREY STRUCTURE AT THE FRONT IS

UPON DEMOLITION OF THE CONDITION AND IS LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS

THE MAIN BLOCK AT NO. 3 WHILE NO. 8C,

ROOF BOARDING AND TIMBER AT SUPPORTS ARE GENERALLY IN A DECAYING STATE AND THE ROOF IS SAGGING SEVERAL LOCATIONS.

THESE BUILDINGS ARE CONSIDERED

то DETERIORATED

CLOSED EXTENT THAT THEY ARE BEYOND ECONOMIC REPAIR AND SHOULD BE DEMOLISHED AS BEING LIABLE TO BECOME DANGEROUS,

ΤΟ HAVE

THE

AND

NOTICES OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR CLOSURE ORDERS FROM THE KONG DISTRICT COURT ON APRIL 8, HAVE BEEN POSTED ON THE BUILDINGS.

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