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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1992

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MORE PARKING SPACES FOR HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES

ABOUT 2,000 PARKING SPACES FOR HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES WILL BE THE PROVIDED IN TSUEN WAN, KWAI CHUNG AND TSING YI IN THE COMING YEAR, SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR TONY EASON, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON LEE WING-TAT, MR EASON SAID THREE SITES COVERING 6.7 HECTARES HAD JUST BEEN OR WOULD SOON BE LET ON SHORT-TERM TENANCY.

THESE SITES WILL PROVIDE 750 PARKING SPACES AND OTHER SITES ARE UNDER PLANNING, HE ADDED.

"ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES WILL ALSO BE MADE AVAILABLE TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT MEASURES, HE SAID.

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ON PARKING FACILITIES AT CONTAINER TERMINALS 8 AND 9, SAID 52 HECTARES OF BACK-UP LAND WOULD BE AVAILABLE THERE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

THROUGH

MR EASON OVER THE

THIS WILL INCLUDE LAND DESIGNATED FOR HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE

PARKING.

"LAND RESERVED FOR OTHER CONTAINER-RELATED USES MAY BE

17 HE SAID. ALLOCATED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PARKING, IF NECESSARY,

CITING AN EXAMPLE, HE SAID ABOUT 14 HECTARES OF INDUSTRIAL LAND MIGHT NEXT TO CONTAINER TERMINAL 9, WHICH WOULD BE AVAILABLE IN 1996, BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE BEFORE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BEGAN.

IN ADDITION, CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATORS HAVE BEEN TO PROVIDE SPACES WITHIN THE TERMINALS FOR OVERNIGHT PARKING.

ONE

ENCOURAGED

OPERATOR HAS ALREADY AGREED TO DESIGNATE ABOUT 300 FOR THIS PURPOSE, MR EASON SAID.

SPACES

GOVT WILL NOT ALLOW HK BE USED BY OUTSIDERS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES

THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION IS THAT IT WILL NOT ALLOW HONG KONG

TO BE USED BY OUTSIDERS FOR THEIR OWN POLITICAL PURPOSES.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR ASPREY SAID IF ALLOWING A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL TO ENTER THE TERRITORY WOULD NOT BE IN THE INTERESTS OF HONG KONG, THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION MIGHT EXERCISE HIS AUTHORITY TO REFUSE PERMISSION TO LAND.

THAT PERSON

HONG KONG