senger Transport Survey Unit, the Planning Division of the Crown Lands and Survey Office, the mass transport consultants and the consulting engineers working on the cross-harbour tunnel.
1.11. The Resettlement building programme continued at a high level. Domestic accommodation to house 105,000 people was completed and buildings to house another 220,000 people were under construction on 31st March, 1966. The completion of some domestic blocks was delayed by contractors who were unable to complete the works within the contract period, but the situation had improved by the end of the year.
1.12. In August 1965 a resolution was passed in Legislative Council approving in principle the grant of a franchise to a private company for the construction of a four-lane cross harbour tunnel, on a line from Hung Hom to Wan Chai. Detail planning of the tunnel landfalls and the associated road systems was being undertaken jointly by the tunnel consultants and Public Works Department engineers.
ORGANIZATION
1.13. The pattern of the department's work and organization is largely dictated by the problems associated with over three million people living within a small area of land, much of which is in the process of redevelopment to a very high density, coupled with the need to open up and service new land for immediate, as well as future, development.
1.14. The main spheres of departmental responsibility are:
Building. The design and construction of Government buildings and the control of private development.
Engineering. Port Works, Roads, Drainage, Land Development, Traffic Engineering and Electrical/Mechanical.
Land. The disposal of Crown Land, Survey and Town Planning.
Water. Design, Construction and Distribution.
1.15. A chart showing the organization of the department, with Headquarters and six sub-departments is on page vi. The object of the organization is to decentralize wherever possible. Day to day decisions on virtually all matters, other than departmental policy and the pro-
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senger Transport Survey Unit, the Planning Division of the Crown Lands and Survey Office, the mass transport consultants and the consulting engineers working on the cross-harbour tunnel.
1.11. The Resettlement building programme continued at a high level. Domestic accommodation to house 105,000 people was completed and buildings to house another 220,000 people were under construction on 31st March, 1966. The completion of some domestic blocks was delayed by contractors who were unable to complete the works within the contract period, but the situation had improved by the end of the
year.
1.12. In August 1965 a resolution was passed in Legislative Council approving in principle the grant of a franchise to a private company for the construction of a four-lane cross harbour tunnel, on a line from Hung Hom to Wan Chai. Detail planning of the tunnel landfalls and the associated road systems was being undertaken jointly by the tunnel consultants and Public Works Department engineers.
ORGANIZATION
1.13. The pattern of the department's work and organization is largely dictated by the problems associated with over three million people living within a small area of land, much of which is in the process of redevelopment to a very high density, coupled with the need to open up and service new land for immediate, as well as future, development.
1.14. The main spheres of departmental responsibility are:
Building.
The design and construction of Government build- ings and the control of private development.
Engineering. Port Works, Roads, Drainage, Land Development,
Traffic Engineering and Electrical/Mechanical.
Land.
Water.
The disposal of Crown Land, Survey and Town Planning.
Design, Construction and Distribution.
1.15. A chart showing the organization of the department, with Headquarters and six sub-departments is on page vi. The object of the organization is to decentralize wherever possible. Day to day decisions on virtually all matters, other than departmental policy and the pro-
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