CONFIDENTIAL
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
布政司署
Mr. Mc Quet JANN
香港下亞畢道
Mr. Williamryn J18.9
** Our Ref : CR 2/926/81
來函檔號 Your Ref:
R D Clift EsqK 182
Hong Kong & Generatepartment F CO
Yes
1916
INDEX
REPLACEMENT AIRPORT:
18 SEP 1981
બુંદ
NO
Enlin
120/1 ₤ Pam 2011
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
1981
11 September,
automit with comments
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4 wks.
4C.G.E.
21/9
POSSIBILITY OF A DEEP BAY SITE
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I wrote to you on 6 August about the decision to give "further consideration" to the possibility of siting the new airport at a Deep Bay site.
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This is to bring you up to date. The present state of play is that a memorandum is being prepared for Exco. It will recommend that a feasibility study should be made of a possible site in Deep Bay. This should be done in such a way that the study could be terminated immediately if any insuperable obstacles are encountered.
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In looking at the question of a feasibility study I have recommended that political considerations argue strongly against an airport configuration which would involve, for its effective use, direct low-level overflying of Chinese territory; the siting of navigational aids within China; or the absolute necessity of extending Hong Kong's air traffic control over a significant section of the Chinese mainland.
It This would rule out a direct NE/SW runway.
? does not, however, rule out a dog-leg configuration which would enable flights to pass over Hong Kong territory south of the border without significantly more overflying of Chinese territory than occurs at present with the Kai Tak site.
4.
There are, of course, many things to be looked at in connection with a Deep Bay site. Within the administration, however, it was thought sensible at least to examine the possibility in the context of development plans for the NW New Territories. The costs involved in
a new airport are so enormous that we must make sure that all the possibilities have been examined.
/contd.
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