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area. Some hillside sites at the south-eastern
end of the Barracks will be reserved for private
residential development. The Government site
facing Queensway will be used for a new Supreme
Court and another high office building.
The final plan also preserves the concept
in the Victoria Barracks Planning Committee's Report
that there should be no through-road bisecting the
area which would tend to be used as an alternative
traffic route, and which will spoil the amenity
value of the new park. This also means that there
will be no need for traffic access into, and a
flyover over, Cotton Tree Drive from the recreational
and leisure area. The Government Plan also rejects
the Planning Committee's proposal for siting a
large Secretariat 'building' in the western part
of the Barracks which is now entirely reserved
for leisure purposes.
Not included in the planning area, or in
the Victoria Barracks site, is another Ministry of
Defence lot, shortly to be surrendered, south of
Kennedy Road, where it loops northwards into the
Barracks site. It has been recommended that Kennedy
Road should be straightened at this point and this
could produce an additional area between the old
and the new roads. But the area involved is
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