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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance (Chapter 124)

RESUMPTION OF LAND FOR STAGE IIA DEVELOPMENT SITE FORMATION IN AREA 5 NORTH AND RIVER TRAINING IN AREAS 3, 5 AND 51, TUEN MUN NEW TOWN, TUEN MUN, NEW TERRITORIES

REOVED IN REGISTRY Ne. 51

11 JUL 1977

HKK 365

A

The Director of Public Works has recommended the resumption of 2, 267, 908 square feet (about 210, 694 square metres) of private agricultural land and 3, 600 square feet (about 334 square metres) of private building land to implement site formation in Area 5 North for zone 1 residential development and river training works in Areas 3, 5 and 51, Tuen Mun New Town. This project is included in the Tuen Mun New Town Engineering Development Stage IIA Package 15 and is in Category A of the Public Works Programme. Development work is scheduled to commence in mid-August 1977.

2

The general location of the land is shown coloured orange on the identification plan at Annex A. The Secretary for the New Territories is satisfied that the land to be resumed is the minimum necessary to implement this project. Compensation for resumption and clearance is estimated at $41.8 million and funds are available in the approved project estimate to meet the expenditure provided that exchange entitlements are accepted as anticipated.

3

The clearance will also involve Crown land and payment of compensation for crops, fruit trees, beehives, fishponds and seven wells together with ex-gratia allowance to cultivators and ex-gratia disturbance allowance for displaced pigbreeders and poultry farmers will be necessary.

4

One hundred and ninety-one (191) temporary structures (thirty-six (36) on private land and one hundred and fifty-five (155) on Crown land) used for domestic purposes will have to be cleared. These temporary structures are occupied by one hundred and thirty- two (132) families who, if found eligible will be offered public housing in Tai Hing Estate in Tuen Mun New Town. Those families found to be ineligible for public housing will be offered space in a licensed area in Tuen Mun.

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