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No part of this area would be used for new Government or commercial development and it would be free of traffic. This area is about one and a half times the size of the Zoological and Botanic Gardens and its use for leisure and recreation would result in the surrounding district being exceptionally well provided with amenity areas. Because of the hilly terrain and the presence of existing buildings and road-ways, however, the detailed planning of this area will need to be carefully thought out and
the Government has therefore decided to commission a special consultants' study on how it can be used to the
best advantage.
The Wan Chai end of the Barracks, which is
already heavily built-over, has been reserved for sale for commercial development. The commercial sites will encircle a public square entered from Queensway and will have pedestrian links with the Admiralty Station
Some hillside sites at the south-eastern end of the Barracks will be reserved for private residential development. The Government site facing Queensway will probably be used for a new Supreme Court building and
another big office building.
area.
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 alterative traffic
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