The 143-hectare Raffles Country Club site in Tuas will be acquired by authorities to make way for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail project. The club announced the move on its website on Wednesday (Jan 4). The announcement included a letter from the Singapore Land Authority informing the club of the acquisition. According to the announcement, the land is also needed for the Cross Island...
Land Acquisition
A total of S$10 million has been awarded to owners of eight partial land lots being acquired for construction of the Thomson-East Coast MRT Line. The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said the owners were paid the market value as determined by private valuers, in accordance with the Land Acquisition Act. Most of the acquired land, spanning a total of over 24,000 sqm, is in the Marine Parade and Changi...
All HDB flat owners at Rochor Centre will be compensated for their existing flats based on the prevailing market values as at the date of announcement of the acquisition, which is 15 November 2011. This is regardless of whether they decide to take up the new replacement flats in Kallang. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said this in a written parliamentary reply on Monday, in response to a...
The government has announced the full alignment for the 21.5-kilometre-long North-South Expressway (NSE), with the southern segment unveiled on Tuesday. The final 5.6-kilometre stretch of the expressway will be an underground tunnel beginning from Toa Payoh Rise and ending at East Coast Parkway. It will pass along Thomson Road, Bukit Timah Road and Ophir Road before leading to the East Coast Parkway...
HDB residents affected by the land acquisition of Rochor Centre have said they are sad to leave their convenient and familiar surroundings. Come 2016, the 567 households there will have to say goodbye to their estate. This is to make way for the North-South Expressway's (NSE) southern stretch that will be an underground tunnel from Toa Payoh Rise to East Coast Parkway. Some residents have been living...
The manager of mainboard-listed Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) has received a formal notice from the Singapore Land Authority on the compulsory acquisition of land that will affect its properties. CIT said the compulsory acquisition of land along Tuas Road is for the construction of Tuas West Mass Rapid Transit extension and several road works. Based on its initial assessment, CIT said three of its 43...
I READ “It’s the end of the Storey” (June 27) with disbelief. How serious are we as a nation about preserving what little is left of our heritage? What, exactly, are these “engineering constraints” that make it impossible to construct the Downtown Line without demolishing the New 7th Storey Hotel? Since the Bugis station already exists, would it be fair to say that they will just be doing works...
Shouldn’t technology be able to save the New 7th Storey Hotel? I REFER to “It’s the end of the Storey” (June 27) and I want to express my utmost disappointment at the imminent demolition of the New 7th Storey Hotel (picture) along Rochor Road. It is hard to understand that with the advance in building technology why this is the only engineering solution to resolve the situation; we have even seen...