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AN INSPIRED VISION Be part of a diverse group of individuals in this up-and-coming LOCALE, where opportunity awaits. Enjoy the commute between this trendsetting neighbourhood and the city with its network of enhanced CONNECTIVITY. Create your own SPACE where definitive style meets comfort in a home you can call your own. Bijou. A Far East SOHO development. DISCOVER THE BIJOU APPROACH TO LIFE Shot on location LIFELONG Freehold at Pasir Panjang INTEGRATED With retail and F&B at ground floor and basement LIMITED Just 120 units in this low-rise 5-storey development CONNECTED Directly opposite Pasir Panjang MRT Station and minutes’ drive to Mapletree Business City, Sentosa and CBD DISCOVER THE POTENTIAL OF WHAT’S TO COME Bijou is located at the fringe of the future Greater Southern Waterfront, which extends from Pasir Panjang to Marina East and is set to be developed in 5-10 years' time. Under the URA Draft Master Plan 2019, the area is envisaged to be a gateway to live, work and play with 1,000 ha of land for future development. Bijou is set to benefit from the transformation of this major gateway and is well-connected to public transport nodes and amenities. Shot on location The Straits Times | Friday, March 8, 2019 sure that every town is well-devel- oped, with good amenities and con- Gateways and long-term plans for a green Singapore venient access to transport nodes and job centres near home, he said. Plans to While these efforts do not “auto- matically equalise property values”, the Government can “temper some of the excesses in the market”. Mr Wong also highlighted plans rejuvenate for three major gateways in the east, west and north of the island. 2 million >4,000ha 3,347ha 327km These key developments will urban trees of gardens and parks of nature reserves of park connectors help create more jobs and increase opportunities for Singaporeans to work closer to their homes. city centre, Meanwhile, work to redevelop Round-island route Woodlands Major gateways Regional the 800ha Paya Lebar Air Base site, Centre which is bigger than Ang Mo Kio Rail corridor town,, will start after 2030. WorkWork on the GreaterGreater SouthernSouthern Coast-to-coast trail waterfront Singapore WaterfrontWaterfront will start sooner, in the Institute of nextnext five to 10 years.years. The project Technology overover 2,000ha of primeprime waterfront landland – six times Marina BaBay’sy’s size – Jurong willwill span more than 20 years.years. Jurong Innovation Paya Plan to encourage mixed-use development in Lake AddedAdded Mr Wong: “Over time, we District Lebar District willwill redevelop and stitch together CBD so there’ll be activities beyond office hours Air Base Changi the entire waterfront from Pasir Airport Nanyang PanjangPanjang to MarinaMarina East.” want to encourage more mixed Calling climate change an existen- Derek Wong Technological Singapore University of uses in the CBD, such as residential University National Technology and Design tial threat, he said the risks and im- and hotel, so that there will be activ- University of pact of sea level rise have been stud- Singaporeans can expect a rejuve- ities beyond office hours.” Singapore Mount Faber ied carefully and the Government is nated city centre, with moves un- The Raffles Place, Tanjong Pagar/ looking at detailed measures to pro- der way to encourage more mixed- Maxwell and Robinson/Shenton Pasir Panjang tect Singapore’s coastal areas. use development in the Central areas are dominated by older office Linear Park Key developments These may include reclamation, sea Business District “so that there will buildings, unlike the Marina Bay Tuas Greater walls or pumping stations. Pasir Panjang be activities beyond office hours”. CBD extension which was planned Mega Southern “These are long-term invest- Power District Giving an update on ongoing and as a mixed-use district, he added, Port Waterfront Academic institutions ments, but we are preparing well future plans to transform the noting most eligible buildings have Keppel ahead and putting in place the nec- cityscape, National Development already made use of the scheme. essary protective measures within Minister Lawrence Wong said Mr Wong also noted plans to re- Sources: NPARKS, URA STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS the next 20 to 30 years,” he said. there will be a review of a scheme vamp Orchard Road, like having dif- The Urban Redevelopment Au- that has allowed eligible commer- ferent precincts with more diverse thority will launch the draft Master cial buildings to maximise their use offerings, to make the stretch “one said the Government also intends Mr Wong said getting the bal- owners sell their flats. Plan 2019 exhibition later this through bonus plot ratios. of the great streets of the world”. to continue “injecting public hous- ance right would be difficult: “The lucky guy who gets the flat month for public feedback, he said. Speaking during the parliamen- In reply to Nominated MP Wal- ing” in central areas. “We have Pricing new HDB flats in prime gets a so-called windfall, compared The plan, reviewed every five years, tary debate on his ministry’s bud- ter Theseira, who felt that favour- already been doing so in small areas according to market value to others who buy flats elsewhere. guides development over a 10- to get, he said: “We will explore new in- ing private development over pub- pockets and we will plan to do so would see only the well-off get Then it’s not a fair distribution of 15-year time frame. centives to better support rejuvena- lic use for high-value areas would in a bigger way with long-term them, but giving huge discounts housing subsidies,” he said. tion in the CBD. Specifically, we worsen social stratification, he rejuvenation.” may lead to a “lottery effect” when The long-term solution is to en- [email protected] Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Permission required for reproduction TOP STORIES The Business Times | Thursday, March 28, 2019 | URA MASTER PLAN 2019 Greater Southern Waterfront development will start in 5-10 years By Nisha Ramchandani Mount Faber has also been ear- cinct by the waterfront when the cur- [email protected] marked as one of the precincts that rent lease expires in 2021. The site is @Nisha_BT will be developed within the next five near both Telok Blangah and Lab- Singapore to ten years as part of the Greater rador Park MRT stations. DEVELOPMENT of the GreaterGreater South-South- Southern Waterfront. In addition, the Master Plan ern Waterfront will begin in five to ten Pasir Panjang Power District willwill sketched out preliminary ideas for years withwith certain precincts, kickingkicking be “given a new lease ooff lilifefe as a lilife-fe- the redevelopment of the site where offoff with Pasir Panjang Power District style and heritageheritage destination,” said Paya Lebar Air Base currently sits. and the site ofof the existing Keppel thethe UrbanUrban RedevelopmentRedevelopment AuthorityAuthority Among the ideas mooted are re-pur- Areas that make up the Greater Southern Waterfront. PHOTO: URA Club.Club. (URA)(URA) on Wednesday, adding that posing the former airport buildings Under the Draft Master Plan 2019, agenciesagencies are already lookinlookingg at poten- and parts of the runway into com- the Greater Southern Waterfront – tialtial waysways to reuse the former powerpower munity spaces while retaining the the assets and facilities to be housed lighted that height restrictions be a new residential and commerc around the air base may be lifted. As a hub in the fringe area.” which stretches across the southern station buildings and open up the area’s aviation heritage; creating a net- at Changi Air Base and Tengah Air result, there could be redevelopment Meanwhile, Huttons Asia head coastline fromfrom Pasir Panjang to Mar- grounds for public access. URA and work of parks and open spaces for Base. of some older buildings in the vicinity research, Lee Sze Teck, pointed o ina East – will total 2,0002,000 hectares ((ha)ha) the Singapore Land Authority will be leisure; and building neighbourhoods Transport connectivity for resid- of Paya Lebar, he added. that the government is continuing initiating a competition next month for future residents. ents in the adjoining areas is expec- and is envisaged to be a gateway forfor Desmond Sim, head of research decentralise jobs from the cent ted to improve as they reduce travel- live, work and play.play. About 1,000 ha of to reach out to the public for potential Paya Lebar Air Base was formerly (South-east Asia) at CBRE, said: “The areas as it outlined more plans land fromfrom the 2,0002,000 ha site will be ideas for the precinct. Paya Lebar Airport, which was Singa- ling time by going through the future relocation of the Paya Lebar airbase Paya Lebar, Changi, Woodlands freedfreed upup for developmentdevelopment after the Meanwhile, the site that is occu- pore’s second international airport town instead of around it. will free up 800 ha of land and the gional Centre and Punggol Digital D City Terminals and Pasir Panjang Ter-Ter- pied by the Keppel Club will be re- from 1955 to 1981. From 2030, Paya Nicholas Mak, head of research & area will be transformed into a future trict under the Draft Master P minal are shiftedshifted to Tuas. developed into a new residential pre- Lebar Air Base will be relocated, with consultancy at ZACD Group, high- new town, (which) has the potential to 2019. Source: The Business Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Permission required for reproduction. The 4 pillars of 1 234 GREATER SOUTHERN the Greater WATERFRONT Southern PULAU BRANI Waterfront under the URA Draft Master Continuous waterfront A possible Southern Connecting green and open The Greater Southern promenade that connect reservoir could be created spaces such as the new Waterfront is envisaged to Plan 2019 various places of interest between Tanjong Pagar and Pasir Panjang Linear Park be a futuristic city that is along the Greater Pulau Brani to retain that will connect West an extension of the Central Southern Waterfront in rainwater from the Greater Coast Park to Labrador Business District (CBD), the future.