The Government is planning a new scheme which will allow more HDB households to benefit from redevelopment before the 99-year leases on their flats expire, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday (Aug 19). The Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS) is part of a “long-term plan” to allow the Government to progressively redevelop precincts, Mr Lee said in his National Day Rally speech....
Residents of Blocks 513 to 520 West Coast Road will have to move after the site was picked for the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS), the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said on Wednesday (Aug 3). The blocks affected are about 37 years old, and they comprise 994 units in total. This is the 80th site to be selected for the scheme, HDB said in a press release. “SERS offers the...
The latest survey of HDB residents who were offered the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) showed continued strong support for the scheme. Of the 628 households from five projects who participated in the survey, 87 percent expressed support for SERS. Most of the residents surveyed were happy that SERS allowed them to continue living in the same estate close to their long-time...
Blocks 1A to 6A Woodlands Centre Road were on Monday identified for the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). The Woodlands site, the 78th to benefit from SERS, comprises 147 flats that were completed in 1980. These flats will be 36 years old by the time the residents move to the new replacement flats at Woodlands Drive 70. HDB will build about 190...
Six blocks of HDB flats in Boon Lay Drive have been chosen for the government's Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). They are blocks 167 to 172, comprising 650 units. Under SERS, selected old sold flats are redeveloped to optimise land use. Residents are then given the option to upgrade to new flats nearby with fresh 99-year lease. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will build about 710...
Twenty-one blocks of HDB flats in Redhill Close have been chosen for the government's Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). They are blocks 1 to 3 and blocks 5 to 22, with a total of 878 units. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will build about 1,200 units of two-room, three-room, four-room and five-room flats in Henderson Road to re-house the flat owners. The new blocks, to be ready in...
Three blocks of flats at East Coast Road - Blocks 1, 2 and 3 - have been chosen for the government's Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS). The site, which is the 75th site to be benefit from SERS, has 82 sold flats which are about 48 years old. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will build replacement flats comprising 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-room flats at Chai Chee Road for the affected flat...
Some old Housing Development Board (HDB) blocks scheduled for demolition under a redevelopment scheme are enjoying an extended lease of life as temporary housing for the needy or as rental flats fetching market rates. According to new figures released by the HDB to The Straits Times, approximately 2,200 units, or about six percent, of the 35,000 flats in 25 blocks chosen for the Selective En bloc...
The Housing Board of Development (HDB) said its latest survey among HDB residents offered the Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) revealed continued strong support for the scheme. Among the 949 households surveyed, close to 95 per cent expressed support for SERS. This is the highest level of support since HDB started the bi-annual survey in 2001. The survey showed that residents are happy that...
Four blocks of flats at Bukit Merah View - blocks 110, 111, 113 and 114 - will undergo the Selective EnBloc Redevelopment Programme (SERS). Member of Parliament (MP) for Tanjong Pagar GRC and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Indranee Rajah made the announcement at the division's tree planting day activities, attended by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and the MPs of the GRC. Ms Indranee noted that the residents...
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