RESTRICTED
BACKGROUND NOTE
Brief History
19 A number of private buildings have had to be resumed by
the Crown to make way for the construction of the Mass Transit
Railway (MTR) in Hong Kong. Seven comparatively modern buildings
are situated in an area known as Sai Lau Kok in Tsuen Wan in the
New Territories. The site is required for the construction of the
Tsuen Wan Station and associated works. A depot for the MTR is to
be built on an adjacent site not affected by this clearance; the
area above the depot will be developed privately (the firms
involved include one owned by Peking interests).
2.
The land and buildings at Sai Lau Kok have been resumed under
the Mass Transit Railway (Land Resumption and Related Provisions)
Ordinance of 1974, amended in 1977. They reverted to the Crown
in November 1978.
Numbers involved
3. The buildings at Sai Lau Kok were occupied by about 560
families of whom 231 were owner-occupiers.
181 of the latter
have already moved out, 81 having purchased alternative accommodation,
and the remainder having been rehoused by the Housing Department.
79 of the tenant families have also moved and another 200 are in
the process of doing so.
Compensation offered to the occupants of the buildings
4.
(i) All owners of shops and flats in the buildings are
entitled under the law paragraph 2 above to
compensation based on the full market value of their
property at the date of reversion to the Crown.
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