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the British Council.
The route taken to reach this conclusion started with
consideration of various options including joi (or developer)
ventures with Hong Kong development companies; buying a building
that would suit; buying and converting a building; leasing a
building; acquiring a site and building on it. The facts indicated
that all these options would cost in the £70/100M range. FCO
Ministers subsequently brought pressure on the Hong Kong Government
to grant the British Government a suitable site on preferential
terms Negotiations were complicated by the necessity for Chinese
agreement to the grant. After a long haggle, during which several
agreement with
reached
sites were considered and the Chinese squared, HMG accepted the
Hong Kong Government offer of the Colvin House site (which has an
excellent prestigious central location) at no capital cost. This outcome was
in the Foreign Secretary's
summarised by a Secretary
tate umiris minute to the Prime
Minister of 17 June 1990. The Prime Minister thought this a good
outcome, as did the Chief Secretary (copies of exchange of minutes
attached for ease of reference). The Private Treaty Grant (PTG),
which allows us the use of the Colvin House site until 30 June
2047, was formally signed on April 1993: title to the site will would
hanna revert to the Government of China in the event that HMG hás no
further need for it.
SWIRE
In DECY, OED appor whed, after interieurs and fee offers, Suine PROPERTIES
as Project Managers.
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Liu
In February 1992, OED Commissioned outline design proposals to
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a full brief from firms of UK Architects with experience of Hong
Kong. We subsequently selected Terry Farrell and Company to
develop their design submission which they estimated, at April 1992
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