No_2_1955 — Page 19

TONG

TAHS

NORTH POINT HOUSING SCHEME

Architect: Eric Cumine, F. R. I. B. A.

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Architect's perspective of the entire project viewed from the harbour.

New legislation, designed to estab- The Site

and between the two side lots, it is North planned to build a very badly need- ed bus terminus and concourse;

lish a statutory Housing Authority The land on which the charged with the duty of providing Point Housing Scheme is to be this will be 232'-0" by 509'-0" and housing accommodation for those built is actually made up of three at its seaboard boundary eventually persons in the Colony now living in lots, located between Java Road and will be built a new passenger ferry overcrowded and unsatisfactory con- the Praya. the east and west boun- terminal. ditions, was passed by the Legislative daries being formed by Tin Chiu and Tong Shui Street re-

Council on 28th April, 1954.

Street spectively.

To

The total area of the site is 293.- 570 square feet. The level of the Details are now available of the

ground now is generally one foot first of the Housing

The western lot is bounded on the above the crown of Java Road. Authority's

the carting away of schemes to be ready, that is the east by Shu Kuk Street and com- avoid estate at Java Road, North Point, on prises some 100.000 square feet; at materials from the excavations

area as far, perhaps, as the a site having an area of about six the Java Road end of this section, an and a half acres.

and separated from it by a private Aberdeen dump, and for purposes of architectural design, it is proposed lane, will be the Government Print-

excess to

cept for the driveways into the East and West Estates and the shops and their rear access lanes.

The architect, Mr. Eric Cumine, ing Workshops now under construc- to raise this level to four feet, ex- was asked to prepare plans for blocks tion. of low-cost flats to house 9000 people or more on the site to give better and cheaper housing conditions than 150.000 square feet, with Kam Hong The Planning

hitherto provided, with due regard to local ways and conditions of liv- ing, the economics of housing and the shortage of available sites.

The

eastern lot covers

Street as its west boundary.

about

Apart from the basic fact that The central lot lles along Java these were to be self-contained flats Road and is approximately 40,000 suitable for the lower income groups square feet in area. North of this of white-collar workers (having

a

ROAD

GOVT.

2

HARBOUR

PLAYGROUNDS

PRINTING

WORKS

(WEST ESTATE)

SHOPS:

— SHU-

JAV

|

NEW

FERAY

TERMINAL

50 100 150 200FT

SCALE

BUS CONCOURSE

PLAYGROUND

CENTRAL

ESTATE

2.

School health clinic Out-patients clinic

*ET

ROAD

SHOPS

General layout plan.

3. School premises 4. Assembly hall

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SHOPS

HARBOUR

SHOP

MARKET

(EAST ESTATE)

TIN

CHIU

STREET