As a small city-state, the future remains our focus. Comprehensive and integrated planning allows Singapore to optimise its limited land to meet the needs of current and future generations. Comprehensive planning means that we take the long-term approach, holistically balancing the social, economic, and environmental considerations of urban development. Integrated planning means we work closely with both our partner government agencies and the public when we produce and review our Master Plans.
The Master Plan 2019 (MP19) was gazetted on 27 Nov 2019, and focuses on planning for inclusive, sustainable, and green neighbourhoods with community spaces and amenities for all to enjoy. It also includes strategies that plan for the rejuvenation of our familiar places and to create capacity to meet our future needs.
The Master Plan is to be read in conjunction with its Written Statement 2019.
Engaging while we plan delivers better outcomes. The feedback we collect helps to improve URA’s draft proposals, and having our stakeholders co-develop ideas with us builds a sense of community and ownership in the plans presented.
The Master Plan review process saw URA reaching out to multiple groups of stakeholders from local communities, industry professionals, grassroots organisations, and academic institutions.
Public engagement activities for Master Plan 2019 took on many forms, ranging from public exhibitions, focus group sessions, community workshops, and stakeholder meetings.
Before the launch of the main Draft Master Plan 2019 exhibition in March 2019, a series of smaller public exhibitions were held between 2016 and 2018 to showcase our proposals and ideas for:
These exhibitions allowed URA to solicit feedback from the general public and key stakeholders, and for proposals to be further refined before their presentation in the Draft Master Plan 2019.
For local areas affected by development plans or new policy guidelines, URA held engagement sessions and design workshops to share our proposals, hear the views of stakeholders, and allow the community to contribute ideas to our draft plans.
The feedback we received were useful for planners in the review of the plans for these areas. For projects like Dakota, Farrer Park, Lorong Chuan, suggestions from stakeholders have helped to augment our plans, with many of these refinements subsequently incorporated into the Draft Master Plan 2019 exhibition. Through this process, our planners also formed meaningful relationships with the stakeholders in these neighbourhoods.
The Draft Master Plan 2019 Exhibition was held at URA Centre between 27 March and 21 June 2019, with sections on Focus Themes, Regional Highlights, and islandwide Urban Transformations.
To better engage local communities and the industry on the proposals, our planners, architects, and URA volunteers hosted more than 400 guided tours for our community stakeholders, partner agencies, professionals from the private sector, interest groups, and members of public.
By the end of the exhibition at the URA Centre, we had:
To further extend our outreach to local communities, selected content from the DMP19 exhibition roved to 5 heartland locations - Our Tampines Hub, Waterway Point, Causeway Point, Westgate and Junction 8 - between 22 July and 4 August 2019.
Check out our roving exhibitions in this video!