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On Hing Building [1993- ]

Current condition: 
In use
Date Place completed: 
1993-01-01

Privy Council Appeal 32/1982 (which may conveniently be referred to as "the On Hing Terrace case"

Redevelopment plans in 1979 failed beacuse

"The plans were disapproved on the 22nd August 1979 on the grounds, inter alia, that there was excessive street shawow."

Details:

"On Hing Terrace ...is flanked by a row of houses and runs between ... Wyndham Street and Zetland Street.  For over sixty years the public have been allowed to use the terrace to pass from one of those streets to the other."