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PRESS RELEASE

DECISION MADE ON FUTURE

USE OF VICTORIA. BARRACKS

After several months of considering the

Report of the Victoria Barracks Planning Committee

and other views on the future development and use of the Barracks, the Government has today (Monday)

published planning proposals on how the Barracks

site should be developed after it is handed back

by the Army next March as part of the Defence Costs

Agreement.

A Government spokesman said today that

the western half of the Barracks will be developed

for recreational and leisure activities while the

eastern half will be planned for private residential

and commercial development, with one Government

site on the Queensway frontage.

He said that the released area of Victoria

Barracks totalled some 18 hectares, but part of it

in the southeast corner had been excluded from the

original planning exercise, because it was likely

to be affected by the realignment of Kennedy Road.

The planning exercise thus covered a total of 16.8

hectares. Of this a total of 9.72 hectares, mainly

in the western end of the Barracks, would be used

for recreational and leisure activities.

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