- 14.
The landslip at Kwun Lung Lau was not related to the adequacy of Government funding. The reasons for the other two landslips will be published in the completed investigation reports.
(d) The Government does not carry out landslip preventive works in squatter areas on Government land. It is the policy to offer rehousing to squatters considered by the Geotechnical Engineering Office to be in obvious and immediate danger because of slopes vulnerable to landslips, especially in times of heavy rainfall.
End/Wednesday, October 25, 1995
Retaining wall near Yan Tsui Court in Chai Wan
The following is a question by the Hon Chan Kam-lam and a written reply by the Secretary for Housing, Mr Dominic Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
On Tsui House and Ning Tsui House in Wan Tsui Estate, Chai Wan will be demolished and redeveloped shortly. As this redevelopment may affect part of the retaining wall of the nearby Yan Tsui Court, will the Government inform this Council:
(a) whether a geotechnical survey will be carried out on the slope in question
before the commencement of the construction works:
(b) what measures have been put in place to ensure that the structure of the retaining wall and residential buildings nearby will not be affected and that there is no danger of the big trees beside the retaining wall falling down; and
(c) how it will ensure the reinstatement of the retaining wall after the
redevelopment?
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.