TWELVE years ago, it was a sleepy, out-of-the-way estate without even an LRT line. That was back when Dr Teo Ho Pin was first elected as Member of Parliament for Bukit Panjang. Shortly after, life began to slowly flow into the estate, with the LRT starting its runs in 1999. Come 2015, it will be connected directly to the MRT system when the Bukit Panjang station, to be located near Ten Mile Junction, is...
Bukit Panjang
Residents in Bukit Panjang will soon have lift landings on every floor. Work has already been completed on 124 Housing and Development Board (HDB) blocks under the lift upgrading programme. And upgrading of the remaining eight eligible blocks will be finished in a few months’ time. The S$80 million lift upgrading programme is part of wider measures to develop the town's infrastructure. Ramps and...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will launch a condominium site at Bukit Panjang for sale by public tender on Thursday. HDB said earlier this week it had accepted an application under the reserve list system from a developer to put the land parcel up for tender. The 99-year land parcel has a site area of about 244,000 square feet and a permissible gross floor area of 513,000 square feet. The...
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will launch the public tender for a residential site at Bukit Panjang later this week. HDB says it has accepted an application under the reserve list system from a developer to put the land parcel up for tender. Under the reserve list system, the government will put up a reserve list site for public tender if it receives an application from a developer who commits,...
Bukit Panjang will be among the first few places to kick off the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme aimed at upgrading older HDB estates. S$6 million has been set aside to rejuvenate the Cashew division in the area. Nearly 1,700 homes in the Cashew division will benefit from the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme. In the pipeline are more cycling and jogging tracks, covered linkways and residents'...
More than 6,000 residents in Bukit Panjang will be among the first in Singapore to benefit from the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme (NRP). Announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National Day Rally last year, it is a new programme that focuses on neighbourhood improvements. Flats that have been built before or in 1989 are eligible for NRP if they have not undergone any kind of main or interim...