Sembawang

By June 2020, Sembawang residents will no longer have to go to Yishun for their daily swims or cheap meals. Instead, a car-lite sports and community hub, with facilities like swimming pools and a hawker centre, will spring up on a 12ha site next to Sembawang MRT station. Yesterday, Sembawang GRC MPs held a symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the hub, Bukit Canberra, attended by 800...

From a swimming pool in natural settings to forest trails and an eco-friendly hawker centre – these are some of the facilities that Sembawang residents can look forward to at the new integrated sports and community hub being planned for the town. Details of the hub were revealed at a roadshow on Sunday (Jul 3) to raise awareness and engage residents on the development, which will be located on a...

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Thursday (Oct 2) awarded the land parcel at Sembawang Road and Canberra Link to Qingjian Realty (Residential). The developer's bid of S$229.38 million was chosen by the HDB, over the combined bid of S$208.5 million by Verwood Holdings and TID Residential. The land site is for executive condominium (EC) housing development, and has a lease term of 99 years....

A residential site at Sembawang Avenue has received only four bids. A consortium comprising FCL Tampines Court and KH Capital submitted the highest bid of about S$214 million for the 22,189.7 square metre site. That translates to a unit price of about S$320 per square feet per plot ratio (psf ppr). The second highest bid for the site came from a consortium that includes Verwood Holdings and TID...

An executive condominium site in Sembawang has been made available for sale under the Government Land Sales Programme, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said Thursday (May 29). The 99-year leasehold site, located at Sembawang Avenue, will yield an estimated 620 residential units, HDB said. The tender for the site will close at 12pm on July 10. Source : Channel NewsAsia - 29 May...

Sembawang residents can look forward to their own swimming pool and stadium within 10 years. MP for Nee Soon GRC Dr Lim Wee Kiak revealed this at the ground-breaking ceremony for an integrated sports, recreation and community hub at Canberra Park on Sunday morning. Some S$2m is being spent to transform Canberra Park in the next one year. The 80,000 residents there will enjoy an Inclusive Adventure...

The tender for a land parcel located at Sembawang Crescent/Sembawang Drive closed on Thursday with a top bid of $211.92 million. The site, measuring 21,718.4 square metres, received a total of eight bids. In a statement, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) said the top bid came from boutique developer JBE Holdings, while the second highest bid of S$210.1 million was handed in by FCL Place Pte. Ltd....

Hao Yuan Investment has submitted the highest bid of S$191.8 million for a residential site along Sembawang Road and Jalan Sendudok. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) closed the tender for the site, after receiving six bids in total. The 27,600 square metre site, with a 99-year lease, was launched for tender on March 29. CBRE Research said the site seems fairly popular based on the number of bids...

Developers MCC Land has put in the top bid of S$131.7 million for a land parcel at the corner of Sembawang Road and Canberra Drive. The bid works out to S$387 per square foot per plot ratio. The second highest bid from SP Setia International came in at S$122.6 million. Nam Hee Contractor and OPH Marymount submitted the third highest bid of S$111 million. The lowest bid of S$85 million came from Frasers...

Singapore's public housing estates could well be powered by sunlight in future, if a pilot project currently underway proves successful. Already, the Energy Save Programme - spearheaded by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), the National Environment Agency and the Energy Market Authority - has shown positive results. The aim of the programme is to bring down energy consumption in all HDB estates by...