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ONLY 200 out of around 5,300 HDB blocks built before 1990 will not be getting lifts that stop at every floor.

Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu said the solutions include installing shaftless lifts, smaller lifts for low-rise blocks, and reconfigured lift access for blocks with lift landings halfway between floors. — PHOTO: BH

200 HDB blocks are not eligible for lift upgrade because it is too costly. — ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG

They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install lifts in these blocks.

This is in spite of innovative and cost-effective solutions by the Housing and Development Board to bring costs down, Parliament heard yesterday. Continue reading →

The number of public housing blocks eligible for lift upgrading has gone up.

When the lift upgrading programme (LUP) started in 2001, 5,300 blocks did not have full lift access. Of these, 1,000 did not qualify due to the high cost of upgrading. But now, that number has dropped to 200.

Eligible blocks are those where the cost of fitting lifts on every floor, averages a maximum of S$30,000 per unit.

But due to the layout of some blocks, average costs could range from S$40,000 to over S$120,000.

That is about 40 per cent of the value of a three- to four-room flat and the Ministry of National Development said it does not make sense to have upgrading works there. Continue reading →