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Noise Barriers
Vertical Acoustic Fins MUT WAH STREET Noise Barrier
and Canopy Vertical Acoustic Fins
Vertical Acoustic Fins HIP WO STREET
HONG NING ROAD ROOF ROOF GREEN
GARDEN GARDEN ROOF
KWUN TONG ROAD
accreditation schemes account for. Involving that were originally located in Development site is detached from residential areas and
a major overhaul of the town centre, a hub Area 4 of the Main Site. However, the yet conveniently accessible from the MTR
for a spectrum of community services, the reprovision of the Methadone Clinic, which station. The new Kwun Tong Methadone
Project’s success depends on public support, previously shared the same accommodation Clinic was completed and handed over to the
which largely hinges on the URA’s plan to with the public clinics and served drug Government in 2014.
maintain the town centre’s vitality and a addicts, was more challenging. Due to the
reasonable level of services throughout well-known NIMBY (’Not in my backyard‘) In addition to health facilities, nine government
the phased implementation. This can only syndrome, certain inhabitants wanted to departments in the Kwun Tong District Branch
happen through painstaking planning and keep the Methadone Clinic out of sight. As Offices Building in Development Area 4 were
close coordination with all parties involved. a result, a compromise site at the centre of a also temporarily relocated in 2012 to premises
A large number of community services are roundabout opposite the existing Clinic was outside of the Project Boundary in order to
needed to remain functional throughout the eventually approved by the Government, but vacate the site to reprovision hawker bazaars,
redevelopment period, which requires the only after spending two years in site search, a refuse collection point, public toilets and
provision of interim facilities as the land consultation and engagement. The new minibus terminuses that had been located
parcels are decanted one after another to
accommodate the relocated facilities. This MUT WAH STREET
complexity means that project coordination is
far from straightforward. Any slip in a single HIP WO STREET
link of the phased implementation could HONG NING ROAD
jeopardise the entire programme.
KWUN TONG ROAD
The Yuet Wah Street Site was chosen for
Phase 1 development because it had been
used as a sitting out area and franchised
bus terminus and did not require acquisition
and resumption. Following the relocation of
the bus terminus to a temporary site outside
of the project boundary, the land has been
used for housing development, as well as
the reprovisioning of three public clinics
HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014 165
Vertical Acoustic Fins MUT WAH STREET Noise Barrier
and Canopy Vertical Acoustic Fins
Vertical Acoustic Fins HIP WO STREET
HONG NING ROAD ROOF ROOF GREEN
GARDEN GARDEN ROOF
KWUN TONG ROAD
accreditation schemes account for. Involving that were originally located in Development site is detached from residential areas and
a major overhaul of the town centre, a hub Area 4 of the Main Site. However, the yet conveniently accessible from the MTR
for a spectrum of community services, the reprovision of the Methadone Clinic, which station. The new Kwun Tong Methadone
Project’s success depends on public support, previously shared the same accommodation Clinic was completed and handed over to the
which largely hinges on the URA’s plan to with the public clinics and served drug Government in 2014.
maintain the town centre’s vitality and a addicts, was more challenging. Due to the
reasonable level of services throughout well-known NIMBY (’Not in my backyard‘) In addition to health facilities, nine government
the phased implementation. This can only syndrome, certain inhabitants wanted to departments in the Kwun Tong District Branch
happen through painstaking planning and keep the Methadone Clinic out of sight. As Offices Building in Development Area 4 were
close coordination with all parties involved. a result, a compromise site at the centre of a also temporarily relocated in 2012 to premises
A large number of community services are roundabout opposite the existing Clinic was outside of the Project Boundary in order to
needed to remain functional throughout the eventually approved by the Government, but vacate the site to reprovision hawker bazaars,
redevelopment period, which requires the only after spending two years in site search, a refuse collection point, public toilets and
provision of interim facilities as the land consultation and engagement. The new minibus terminuses that had been located
parcels are decanted one after another to
accommodate the relocated facilities. This MUT WAH STREET
complexity means that project coordination is
far from straightforward. Any slip in a single HIP WO STREET
link of the phased implementation could HONG NING ROAD
jeopardise the entire programme.
KWUN TONG ROAD
The Yuet Wah Street Site was chosen for
Phase 1 development because it had been
used as a sitting out area and franchised
bus terminus and did not require acquisition
and resumption. Following the relocation of
the bus terminus to a temporary site outside
of the project boundary, the land has been
used for housing development, as well as
the reprovisioning of three public clinics
HONG KONG REPORT ON THE STATE OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 2014 165
