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As part of our efforts to Shape a Happy Healthy City, we are planning for new residential neighbourhoods in more central locations to provide more liveable and inclusive homes to meet our collective aspirations.
More homes are being planned in various locations in the Central Region, allowing more people to enjoy the benefits of city living, such as excellent transport connectivity and close proximity to workplaces, amenities and lifestyle offerings. These areas also present opportunities for attractive, greenery-infused high-rise living. New residential options will be introduced at Pearl’s Hill and Marina South as part of the plans to rejuvenate the city centre into lively mixed-use districts. Residents can also look forward to new neighbourhoods, such as at the Bukit Timah Turf City, Mount Pleasant and the former Keppel golf course.
Public spaces and amenities will also be provided for social interaction to foster a sense of community. Residents and visitors can enjoy lush green public spaces next to Outram Part MRT station.
Residents and visitors can also look forward to new facilities and uniquely curated landscapes that support habitats for biodiversity such as butterflies, dragonflies and birds in the Pearl’s Hill City Park.
Set amid lush gardens, Marina South is a 45ha site planned as a new, mixed-use residential neighbourhood with more than 10,000 new homes.
An extensive network of public spaces has been planned as neighbourhood living rooms for everyday interactions and community activities. This will include a lively Pedestrian Mall and public plazas, as well as more intimate courtyard spaces and friendly neighbourhood streets. From festive markets to neighbourhood exercise groups, these spaces can provide opportunities for residents to lead an active lifestyle and meet and mingle.
Marina South will be a 10-minute neighbourhood where the location and spread of amenities are planned upfront to ensure the daily needs of residents can be met within a 10-minute walk.
Greenery plays a large part in contributing to the serenity and comfort in Marina South, with well-shaded streets and social spaces. To foster a distinct precinct identity, encourage biodiversity and sustainable greening, developers would be encouraged to plant native species set out in NParks’ Landscape Master Plan. These plantings will facilitate the movement of birds and butterflies, provide shelter for pedestrians and connect Gardens by the Bay to the coast.
Marina South is planned as a sustainable town of the future where all the developments will be required to attain the accreditation of BCA’s Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy (SLE), as well as Maintainability, Whole-of-Life Carbon and Health and Wellbeing badges. This can be achieved through more energy-efficient measures (e.g. adopting tropical architecture features) to reduce the development's carbon footprint.
Developments will be encouraged to adopt sustainable waste management measures such as compositing facilities for food waste, and water-sensitive urban design features such as rain gardens.
The Bukit Timah Turf City site was Singapore’s second racecourse from 1933 to 1999. We are studying the possibility of offering a mix of housing choices at the site, including both public and private housing to meet different aspirations and preferences. Development plans for the area will celebrate the heritage of the area, by retaining and repurposing some of the elements of the racecourse into new community nodes. These nodes will be complemented with amenities and a network of green landscapes that connects key biodiversity area, in a car-lite and pedestrian friendly environment. The area will also be developed sensitively, by taking into consideration the heritage, greenery and the surrounding areas in the design process.
The first housing site in the Greater Southern Waterfront precinct will be launched in the next two years for public housing at the former Keppel golf course. When fully developed, the site will have about 9,000 new homes, with approximately 6,000 public housing units. Close to 10ha of green spaces will be provided for recreational uses and ecological connectivity. Housing developments will feature staggered building heights that step down towards green spaces and the waterfront, enabling residents to enjoy the view of greenery at their doorsteps.
Once home to the Old Police Academy (OPA), the upcoming Mount Pleasant public housing estate will provide about 5,000 new homes. It will be served by the nearby Mount Pleasant MRT station and amenities such as a neighbourhood centre and a park. The area will celebrate the heritage by conserving and integrating selected buildings of the OPA with new developments. To minimise potential impact to the surrounding environment, two out of three streams in the area will be fully conserved, together with part of the third stream where there is richer biodiversity.
Plans shown are indicative only, and subject to further study.