Plans for primary whole-day schooling and the reduction of floating classes might be delayed, it was revealed yesterday.
Sixteen primary and secondary schools would be needed to cope with the influx of mainland children, said the chairman of the Land and Building Advisory Committee.
'Ten hectares of land could be found on sites reserved on town plans to build these 16 schools by 2001,' said Professor Yeung Yue-man.
'But if all this land is given to the building of these schools, schemes including primary whole-day schooling and reduction of floating classes might be delayed.
'If we were to let the two proceed at the same time, I think something has to suffer,' Professor Yeung said.
But he quoted Director of Lands Robert Pope as saying it was not impossible to identify extra land to allow all schemes to go ahead.
