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TAI HANG ROAD CO-OPERATIVE APARTMENTS

Architect: Faitfone Wong, B. Sc. (Arch.)

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Proceeding up Tai Hang Road from There will be twenty-four flats in all, Causeway Bay, extensive excavation work half of which are of Type 'A' and the can be seen in progress on the left hand other half. Type 'B'. The Type A flat side of the road a few hundred feet past is a 3-bedroom unit having a floor area the St. John Ambulance Brigade Building. of 1,212 square feet, while the Type B In about seven months' time, this site of flat is a 2-bedroom unit with a floor area building operation will become the homes of 1,028 square feet. of members of the Tai Hang Co-operative Building Society, Ltd.

was formed in

1957 by

Less well-known, however, is the con- tribution that the Hong Kong

Govern- ment is making for the benefit of local employees on the Permanent and Pension- Assistance to this able Establishment. class of worthy and responsible Colony re- sident is being rendered in the form of loans made to Co-operative Building So- The general contract has been awarded cieties registered under the Co-operative to Messrs. Hung Hing Company.

Societies Ordinance, comprising groups of individuals who join

together to There are many obvious manifestation sume the responsibility for, and obtain of Government's contribution towards the the benefit of, the assistance that Govern-

The Society twenty-four civil servants, mostly from the Public Works Department. Like the majority of co-operative building socie- alleviation of the housing shortage in ment is prepared to give. ties, this Society has also leased from Hong Kong. The building of new apart- Government a piece of land, I.L. 7426, ment blocks since the war for the housing which, being situated on a hillside, re-

of of expatriate officers

every grade, quires extensive site formation work. The added to the older buildings, rehabilitated site has, however, a panoramic view of or purchased since 1947, makes an im- Victoria Park and Kowloon Bay. The pressive total of quarters provided for area of the site is about 11,200 square these officers. feet, with a frontage of 160 feet along Tai Hang Road.

More spectacular are the resettlement blocks, built and paid for out of Govern- Owing to the steepness of the site, the ment's contributions to the building of development scheme calls for foundation low cost housing directly, through the work consisting of two levels or terraces. Housing Authority, and indirectly, Thus a

row of garages will be dug out through the Hong Kong Housing Society from the hillside at the street level and and the Model Housing Society, for the above these the six-storeyed block of benefit of low paid workers and clerical flats will be erected.

assistants, are almost equally impressive.

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