57. A total of 1,020 factories, workshops and shops were also cleared, involving the allocation of 131 units in resettlement factories and 504 shop or workshop premises in domestic estates. Details are as follows:
(a) Factories
No. of factories resettled
No. of factories to be resettled subject to change of trade... No. of factories ineligible for resettlement
No. of eligible factories not accepting resettlement
65
19
71
42
197
•
Total number of factories cleared...
(b) Shops/Workshops
No. of shops/workshops resettled
...
No. of shops/workshops ineligible for resettlement
Total ...
413
410
A
823
The proportion of shops and workshops ineligible for resettlement was slightly less than last year, but still remained high. The main reasons for ineligibility are the small size of a shop, its use for non-retail trade, or the fact that business was started after a special 'freezing' survey of squatter shops carried out in late 1965. The percentage of factories ineligible for resettlement was unusually high, principally because the Lei Cheng Uk clearance included a considerable number of miscellaneous undertakings which were recorded as factories but which were not true factories in fact. The number of eligible factories not accepting resettle- ment was proportionately about the same as in 1966-67, since the same factors continued to apply: a bleaker economic climate for marginal producers; competition (and fewer restrictions) from private flatted factories and the misuse of residential tenements for industry; and the more outlying location of most of the department's newest factory
estates.
58. Clearances during the year included the site for a public swim- ming pool at Lei Cheng Uk, widening of Tai Po Road and an extension to Lei Cheng Uk garden, the site for the Hing Wah Resettlement Estate at Chai Wan, decking of the nullah at Hing Wah Street, some small sites in connexion with the Castle Peak New Town development, and the site for a Community Centre at Yau Ma Tei. The clearance of Staunton Creek which was started in 1966 was completed in July 1967 as scheduled and about 18.5 acres of land were released for development. The clearance that attracted most attention was perhaps the Yau Ma Tei Community Centre clearance in which the structures involved were not the usual
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