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Nevertheless, the Board recognized that, in the end, an assessment of the need for a replacement airport would depend upon reliable forecasts of passenger numbers, cargo volume and aircraft movements and recommended that these forecasts be reviewed at least once a year. AS the lead time for the construction of a replacement airport was likely to be 7 - 10 years the Board further recommended that the first phase of detailed engineering investigations of the site selected for examination at Chek Lap Kok, and island off the north-west coast of Lantau island, be undertaken (paragraph 25 below explains the choice of this site).
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Consequently in april 1978, after considering Memorandum XCC(78)29, honourable Members advised that:
"(a) a civil engineering feasibility study
of land formation for a replacement airport at Chek Lap Kok should be carried out in conjunction with the land development study of North Lantau being undertaken by the Public Works Department;
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