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DECISION MADE ON FUTURE
USE OF VICTORIA BARRACKS
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After several months of considering the Report
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of the Victoria Barracks Planning Committee and other
views on the future development and use of the Barracks,
the Government has today 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 för private residential and commercial development, with one Government site on
the Queensway frontage.
He said that the Victoria Barracks Planning
Area covered some 16.8 hectares, of which a total of 9.72 hectares, mainly in the western end of the Barracks, would be used for recreational and leisure activities.
No part of 1this 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
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