I REFER to Mr Chan Mia Lee's letter, 'Why the delay in upgrading opposition ward?' (April 8), and would like to highlight that the lift upgrading projects in Potong Pasir and Hougang are on track. Blocks 101 to 109 in Potong Pasir Avenue 1, and Blocks 351, 352, and 354 to 357 in Hougang Avenue 7 were announced for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) last October. As with all LUP projects, the HDB...
Lift Upgrading Programme
WORKS on a lift upgrading project in Eunos that had been delayed for about 10 months restarted yesterday. Progress was made at a meeting on Thursday when the Housing Board agreed to 10 out of 15 requests from unhappy residents. The home owners in Blocks 411, 415 and 417 in Eunos Road 5 had protested that new lift shafts already built blocked light and ventilation to their flats. The HDB, which stopped...
The Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council said upgrading works will continue despite huge investment losses reported in 2008. Over 90 per cent of blocks in the Holland and Bukit Panjang districts have commenced lift upgrading programmes. The latest financial report showed the town council achieved an accumulated surplus of S$1.81 million. "Our town council is very prudent in terms of our investment...
Fourteen HDB blocks in Jurong East will undergo lift upgrading. This was announced by Senior Minister of State for National Development, Grace Fu, at a community event on Sunday. Ms Fu said blocks 103 to 116, which were built in the early 80s, will get their lifts upgraded. She said: "For Jurong East Yuhua, this will be our second last precinct; we have one more precinct to go, we hope we are able to...
The number of public housing blocks eligible for lift upgrading has gone up. When the lift upgrading programme (LUP) started in 2001, 5,300 blocks did not have full lift access. Of these, 1,000 did not qualify due to the high cost of upgrading. But now, that number has dropped to 200. Eligible blocks are those where the cost of fitting lifts on every floor, averages a maximum of S$30,000 per unit. But...
Blocks 101 to 109 in Potong Pasir Avenue 1 will be the first in an opposition ward to undergo lift upgrading, according to People's Action Party (PAP) adviser to Potong Pasir, Sitoh Yih Pin, in a news release on Friday evening. In July, the government announced that some blocks in opposition-held Potong Pasir and Hougang will come under the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP). The plan is to have all eligible...
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...
For the first time, opposition-held Potong Pasir and Hougang will be eligible for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) for 65 precincts islandwide. Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu revealed this to the media on Monday at a Home Improvement Programme (HIP) event. Residents received upgrades to their piping, laundry areas and electrical systems and 33,000 more households across...