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HUDC estate protests against fees

Posted on 26 Jun 2012 | Comments Off on HUDC estate protests against fees

The management of Braddell View estate (pictured) has urged its residents to sign a petition calling for the reduction in fees that they’ll need to pay once the estate is privatised.

They also sought the help of Member of Parliament Hri Kumar Nair to negotiate with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Housing and Development Board (HDB).

The open letter was sent to all residents on 22 June asking for “the lowest possible rate of premium in which the relevant department is going to impose on us”.

In its June newsletter, the management said that it would work with Mr Nair to petition for a special concessionary rate to give residents “a more comfortable position to dig into their shallow pockets and squeeze out the money to pay up”.

Braddell View estate was built in two phases in 1977 and 1980 by the Housing & Urban Development Company (HUDC).

The property was developed to provide for middle-income households who had been priced out of the private homes market. But in 1987, the scheme was phased out as more housing choices were introduced. From that point, all other HUDC estates were privatised or marked for privatisation.

However, Braddell View was left out as it was developed in two phases and on two separate land leases with different expiry dates.

To resolve the complicated issue, an amendment to the HUDC Housing Estates Act was proposed in May. Instead of dividing the privatisation fee equally, the amendment allows owners to decide amongst themselves how much they each have to pay.

Source : PropertyGuru – 2012 Jun 25

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HDB identifies Woodlands Centre Road site for SERS

Posted on 25 Jun 2012 | Comments Off on HDB identifies Woodlands Centre Road site for SERS

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 units of new two-, three-, four-and five-room flats at Woodlands Drive 70 to re-house the residents affected by the SERS exercise.

The replacement flats are at a convenient location, opposite the Admiralty MRT station and neighbourhood shopping complex Admiralty Place. Amenities such as shops, eating establishments, wet market, community centre and schools are close by.

Within the replacement precinct, there will be recreational facilities for all ages, such as a playground, open plaza and fitness stations.

The replacement flats will be ready in 2016.

Eligible SERS flat owners will be invited to register for their replacement flats in the second quarter of 2013.

197 rental shops, eating houses and offices at Blocks 1A to 6A, and the hawker centre at Block 4A comprising 78 cooked food stalls managed by the National Environment Agency (NEA), will be cleared in tandem with the sold flats.

Eligible shop tenants will be given an ex-gratia payment of S$60,000 per tenancy.

Singaporean shop tenants will be granted a relocation assistance benefit of S$30,000 per tenancy if they are able to find alternative premises to continue their business before the clearance deadline.

All shop tenants will also be given a 10 per cent rental discount on their successful bid for other HDB rental shops or when they take over HDB rental shops through assignment.

To ensure that there will be an adequate number of cooked food stalls to serve the community, NEA will build a replacement hawker centre at Woodlands Town. Details on the proposed location will be announced at a later date.

Hawker stallholders who wish to continue their trade will be allocated a new stall at the replacement centre. Alternatively, they may opt to be allocated alternative vacant stalls at other existing hawker centres, subject to availability. For stallholders who wish to exit, an ex-gratia payment of S$23,000 per tenant will be offered to first-generation stallholders.

The Housing and Development Board says all SERS flat owners, commercial tenants and stallholders will be informed individually.

Information of the replacement flats for the SERS flat owners will also be exhibited from June 28 to July 2 at Marsiling Community Club.

SERS offers residents the unique opportunity to move to a brand new flat with a fresh 99-year lease, better design and modern facilities.

Since SERS was introduced in 1995, the programme has benefited about 36,000 households across 77 sites.

Source : CNA – 2012 Jun 25

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