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Hygiene Black Spot | Cheuk Wing-hing led officials to inspect the Buildings Department and pointed out that illegal signboards in Sham Shui Po accounted for 1/3 of Hong Kong

2022-08-14T10:22:20.337Z


The three-month "Government's Plan to Combat Hygiene Black Spots" kicked off today (14th). The Deputy Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing, led a number of government officials to patrol the districts. Department


The three-month "Government's Plan to Combat Hygiene Black Spots" started today (14th), and the Deputy Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing, led a number of government officials to patrol the districts. Director Yu Po-mei inspected the illegal signboards in the area of ​​Fuk Wa Street in Sham Shui Po.


Yu Baomei said that the Buildings Department is conducting regular sign inspections in the area, and is expected to issue about 260 "Notices for the Removal of Dangerous Structures", which will involve the removal of about 570 dangerous or abandoned signboards. The target is to be completed in October.

The department will monitor the safety of signboards in a multi-pronged approach. She mentioned that it will search for new merchants through the big data of technology companies, reminding that new signboards need to be installed in a legal way; and regular safety inspections of existing signboards will be carried out.


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Yu Baomei pointed out that about 570 dangerous or abandoned signboards are involved in Sham Shui Po, and the clearance operation is expected to be completed by October this year.

(Photo by Lu Yiming)

The Director of Buildings, Yu Po-mei, pointed out that there are about 30,000 legal signboards in Hong Kong, and nearly 1,700 dangerous or abandoned illegal signboards will be removed this year, including 570 in Sham Shui Po alone, and the removal is expected to be completed by October this year.

She mentioned that the Lands Department has established a database of legal signboards, which has recorded the data of legal signboards in about five districts, and the public can consult the relevant information.

When passing two dangerous signboards, Yu Baomei pointed out that the Buildings Department will post a "Notice for the Removal of Dangerous Structures" on the relevant premises, requiring the signboard owner to remove the structure within 14 days from the date of the notification.

Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration Cheuk Wing-hing, Secretary for Development Ning Hon-ho and Director of Buildings Yu Po-mei and other officials inspected the illegal signboards at Fuk Wa Street in Sham Shui Po.

(Photo by Lu Yiming)

Zhuo Yongxing pointed out that he will focus on three "problem signboards", including abandoned and damaged signboards, signs without licenses and approvals, and will also focus on new signboards.

Yu Baomei said that merchants may install new signs after changing hands. The government will search for new merchants through the big data of technology companies and distribute publicity leaflets to them to remind merchants to install new signs in a legal way. As for existing signs, she emphasized that the department There are relevant safety inspections to check whether the signboard is safe.

Cheuk Wing-hing, together with other directors and directors, also visited various districts today. One of the stops included an inspection of the hygiene black spot in a back alley of Lai Chi Kok Road. Zhao Kaiyu was also present.

Zhuo Wingxing pointed out that the government is absolutely responsible for maintaining the sanitation and cleanliness of Hong Kong, but he stressed that everyone is responsible, "If the government keeps cleaning up and the citizens keep dropping out, we will only be in this nightmare of 'you clean me up, you clean me up'. Hong Kong is everyone’s Hong Kong, and everyone must dispose of their own garbage from today.” He then inspected two districts in the Kowloon City District with the Secretary for Home Affairs and Youth Affairs, Mak Meijuan, and the Director of Home Affairs, Zhang Zhaokaiyu. "Three-Nu Building" and its surrounding areas are black spots for illegal waste disposal.

▼18 District Health Black Spot List▼


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▼August 12th, the representative of the government's inter-departmental account explained the "regional affairs coordinating working group" to combat the health black spot plan▼


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Repeated cleaning of sanitation black spots and accumulations Deputy Chief of Administration Zhuo Yongxing: Reincarnation "you clear me out" nightmare group?

Zhuo Yongxing: I don’t want to separate factions and factions, but we need to comprehensively judge the health black spots. Since August 14, we will focus on cracking down on more than 600 black spots. Zhuo Yongxing: The division of labor was unclear in the past. ?

Source: hk1

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