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HMS Tamar

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20.

On the third option, the Prince of Wales Building

(PWB) in HMS Tamar, the present HQ of British Forces in

Hong Kong, is the most obvious example of an existing

building that we might be able to acquire in the

non-commercial office market to adapt as a future British

Consulate- General.

21.

In theory there are a number of arguments in

favour of seeking to use PWB to house the

Consulate-General:

(i)

(ii)

it is a prestigious modern building on a spacious

site, ideally located. There is good access and

parking;

it would easily be able to accommodate all the

sections of the Consulate-General and, if they

wished, the British Council also. Depending on

the latter and on the passport and immigration

sections, there would be space for varying amounts

of residential accommodation. We could house all

these requirements in the tower of the building

only, if this could be negotiated spearately from

the extensive accommodation around the foot of the

tower. (The tower comprises about 17,500m2 of

useable space.);

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