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route. This also means that there will be no need for
traffic access into, and a flyover over, Cotton Tree
Drive from the recreational leisure area.
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 extremely steep and is mostly
Crown land covered by woods and undergrowth. Until,
therefore, it is known how and when the straightened
stretch of road will be formed and how much usable
land it will produce, it will not be possible to
incorporate this area into the planning scheme.
The spokesman said that the Government had
to decide between a number of approaches prepared by
the Victoria Barracks Planning Committee and by the
Public Works Department, and had taken account of the
strongly held views expressed in some quarters that a
reasonable proportion of the land should be sold for
new development. The Government also had been concerned
that the release of land in Victoria Barracks should
produce benefits for the population of Hong Kong at
large as well as for those who might enjoy the
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