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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

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Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance (Chapter 124)

HKP. 365/2

RD. 01

KAY KO.

18 JAN1973

LESK OFFICER

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IRDEX

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PROPOSED RESUMPTION OF HUNG HOM INLAND LOT NUMBER 390 (82 WUHU STREET) FOR THE

WIDENING OF GILLIES AVENUE

Introduction

A

The section of Gillies Avenue between Station Lane and Wuhu Street has a maximum width of 8.8. metres between buildings at ground level and is sufficient for only a single traffic lane with foot- paths. Following completion of the Wuhu interchange, as illustrated on the plan at Annex A, all north-bound traffic coming off from Chatham Road into Hung Hom will have to turn right under the south-bound traffic lane in Chatham Road via Slip Road A as shown on the plan on to the section of Gillies Avenue between Station Lane and Wuhu Street before joining the internal Hung Hom road system. As Slip Road A has limited capacity, the section of Gillies Avenue between Station Lane and Wuhu Street must be widened so that traffic may exit freely from the Wuhu interchange without causing a build-up of standing traffic on the slip road and on Chatham Road, thereby interrupting the free flow of traffic on the north-bound traffic lane on Chatham Road,

G.S. 84

2

The Wuhu interchange forms part of the Western Approaches to the Airport Tunnel project which is in Category A of the Public Works Programme under Item KH2(2) at an estimated cost of $135 million. Work on the interchange started in February 1977 and is due to be completed in March 1979.

Proposed resumption of Hung Hom Inland Lot Number 390

3

The widening of this section of Gillies Avenue requires the use of a portion of the site of a public latrine and the whole of Hung Hom Inland Lot Number 390. This lot is held by an investment company under a Crown lease dated 14th October 1969 for the residue of a term of 150 years from 26th December 1884. The area of the lot coloured beige hatched black on the plan at Annex B, is 92 m2. It is fully developed.

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The building on it, known as Number 82 Wuhu Street, is a four-storey, post-war building, the ground floor, cockloft and first floor of which are used for commercial purposes, while the second and third floors are domestic. The rooftop has been illegally converted to form a fourth storey presently occupied by a paper manufacturing workshop.

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