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TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

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<strong>The</strong>me B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesFigure 6:Vehicular network before and after redevelopmentFigure 7:New road network and footbridge for Kwai Chung Estate6. IMPLEMENTATION6.1 Social Aspects6.1.1 Local RehousingUnder the CRP, the redevelopment was to allow for in-situ rehousing,reprovisioning of open space and retention of existing facilities and features as faras possible, so was to be implemented in stages. As a first step, residents on thesite of Phase 1 were to be moved to a new reception estate in Kwai Shing Estateand then the construction of new blocks on the site began, which would eventuallyre-house people from other parts of the estate and trigger the overallredevelopment of the estate in a planned and sequential manner. Phase 1 of theredevelopment was completed in early 1998. Of the 22,000 original tenants ofKwai Chung Estate, 7,000 were eventually re-housed in the new Estate.276

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