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CHAPTER VII
RESETTLEMENT OF FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
90. Most squatter areas in the Colony include not only domestic structures but also a number of small factories and workshops. These may vary in size from fairly substantial businesses with a number of employees, to a family concern housed in a corner of the same hut that is used for living and sleeping; but they all have in common the fact that they provide much needed employment for squatters living in the area, of which they form an integral part; and there are few industries carried on in the Colony which are not in one way or another dependent on their products. It is therefore of considerable importance to ensure that the clearance of a squatter area does not entail the closing down of these concerns for lack of premises in which to carry on their trades.
91. A number of rooms on the ground floors of resettlement estates have been made available for use as small workshops, but it was impossible to allow in these rooms the use of power-driven machinery or other processes likely to disturb the residents in the block. After consultation between the Labour Department, the Commerce and Industry Department, the Public Works Department, and the Resettle- ment Department, a resettlement factory was built at Cheung Sha Wan in November 1957 as a pilot project, to provide space for those concerns which occupied land urgently required for permanent development but which were not in a financial position either to purchase land or to pay the rents demanded for space in factory buildings erected on a com- mercial basis.
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In general appearance this factory building is not unlike a large resettlement 'H' block but there are important structural differences, The weight is borne on columns spaced at twelve feet intervals. Each floor of each wing consists of 9,000 square feet of open space separated by a staircase and a ramp in the centre, and with additional staircase access at each end of the wings. Each floor is divisible into units of 198 square feet- the clear space between each of the bearing members-
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