New bids, with quotations topping MOP 1 billion, are now under consideration for the 1.6-kilometre link.
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Saga has dragged on for years as urban renewal company seeks to find a solution to knotty accommodation problems.
Floodwalls will be built in the Inner Harbour, while improvements will be made on the Outer Harbour’s dykes, promised Macao’s Secretary for Transport and Public Works.
Scheme will see 4,800 new flats in Areia Preta, in a complicated deal on the site of the ill-fated Pearl Horizons development.
Environmental reports should be completed by December, though the number of flats is still in question, and activists question whether it should be built at all.
Government aims for “quality, not quantity”: rules out public consultation.
Outline of bill regulating the city’s building construction passed, proposing that those who fail to carry out the necessary maintenance of or repairs to their buildings, despite an official order to do so, will face a fine.
The government has decided not to carry out a public consultation on a research report on the city’s urban renewal process which it has commissioned a consultancy to carry out, as the government had already launched a public consultation late last year on the drafting of a bill regulating the city’s urban renewal process.
The government aimed for the construction of some 23,000 public housing units on Zone A to get off the ground by 2024.