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Meanwhile, the Carpenter Road Park will be revitalised with new elements incorporated to the layout and design, and park facilities to upgrade the Park as a whole. Pedestrian pavements will also be widened with appropriate green landscape, and a unified green corridor will be made connecting Mei Tung Estate, Kowloon City Walled Park, Carpenter Road Park and the project site.
Appropriate relaxation of the height restrictions has been proposed in the main site to allow greater flexibility in the design and layout of buildings, thereby releasing more space at ground level for pedestrian use. A portion of Nga Tsin Long Road and Nam Kok Road will be converted into two green pedestrian avenues, each at least 18-metre wide. An underground carpark in the main site will also be incorporated to improve traffic condition and ease illegal parking problem.
In the eastern site adjoining Prince Edward Road East, the road segment adjacent to the area of the sunken plaza to be developed in the Kai Tak Road/Sa Po Road Development Scheme (KC- 015) will be realigned, providing more space for a new Gateway Square connecting to Kai Tak Development Area. A low rise commercial building will be built to support the business activities of the Gateway Square. With the transfer of plot ratio, the residue gross floor area of the eastern site will be transferred to the main site, thereby unleashing further development potential of the land.
Under the integrated approach, the adjacent Tak Ku Ling Road Rest Garden will be revitalised and integrated with the sunken plaza of KC-015 and the nearby bus stops, providing an improved environment for bus queueing and disembarking. In addition, we will trial on adopting the ‘district- based’ approach by introduction building rehabilitation to those buildings of different ages and conditions in the neighbourhood of the projects along the area from Nam Kok Road to Tak Ku Ling Road. Targeted proposals for different building ages and conditions will be formulated to encourage owners to carry out building maintenance and preventive maintenance.
A new G/IC Complex (below) will be built to reprovision the existing Kowloon City Municipal Services Building (right) with modernised facilities and greater community uses.
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