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APPENDIX N-Contd.

Proposed New Buildings

# * Residence .. * 4 Apartment* 4 Tenement† ** Apartment/Commercial‡ Tenement/Commercial § Commercial ** Industrial Warehouse School/Religious centre Hospital/Clinic Welfare/Recreational Public Utility Office/Storage Hotel Cinema Miscellaneous 4 # Cinema/Tenement/Commercial * ... * * 1 * ** 17 12 * * * 46 22 4 3 86 46 255 158 # 47 41 ** ... 149 53 15 10 ... 42 36 .༈. 1 2 ** 29 23 21 18 2 Nil 3 Nil 1 1 2 Nil *** A 34 4

(Note: A total of 754 approval permits were issued in respect of these buildings, compared with 429 including miscellaneous buildings for 1968-69)

Other Building Works

* Demolition 264 214 Site Formation 81 40 *** Private Roads 2 Nil Alterations and additions to existing buildings 514 608 Amendment plans (i.e. to amend approved plans)... 1,618 1,191 Piling, superstructure and other structural plans 1,538 688 Structural amendment plans 554 421 ++ Drainage (and wells) 580 302

Notes:

* An apartment building is a building consisting of self-contained units of residential accommodation.

† A tenement building is a building in which any living room is adapted or intended for the use of more than one tenant or sub-tenant, 'living room' being defined as any room adapted or intended as a place for cooking or sleeping.

‡ An apartment/commercial building is usually a building in which the ground floor is intended for commercial usage, the remainder being for apartments.

§ A tenement/commercial building is usually a building in which the ground floor is intended for commercial usage, the remainder being for tenements.

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