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HDB puts up Jurong West land for tender at Westwood Avenue

Posted on 27 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on HDB puts up Jurong West land for tender at Westwood Avenue

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) on Monday accepted an application under the Reserve List System to put up a residential land parcel at Jurong West for public tender.

HDB said it will launch the tender for the land parcel in about two weeks.

The land parcel is at Westwood Avenue and it is proposed for the development of landed housing.

The area covers 14,098.9 square metres and is for a lease term of 99 years.

Under the Reserve List System, the Government puts up a Reserve List site for public tender if it receives an application from a developer who commits, by signing an agreement and paying a deposit of five per cent of the bid price, to bid for the site at or above the minimum offer price.

For this site, the minimum offer price has been set at S$15,000,000.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 26 Oct 2009

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PR distribution in HDB estates will be monitored

Posted on 27 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on PR distribution in HDB estates will be monitored

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) will consider measures to prevent the congregation of permanent residents, if necessary.

MediaCorp had contacted the statutory board after Member of Parliament Lim Wee Kiak filed a parliamentary question on the total number of PRs who own HDB flats and the distribution of PRs in various public housing estates.

While his question is being held over from last week – it could not be reached within the 90 minutes given for question time – an HDB spokesman said: “It’s important that PRs can integrate into the larger citizen community and to have a good mix of PRs in HDB estates. HDB will monitor the distribution of PRs in HDB estates.”

While it will consider measures, the spokesman added: “The number of PR households owning HDB flats is a small proportion of all HDB households.”

To Dr Lim, who may get the numbers next month when Parliament is in session, “10 to 15 per cent” would be “significant” enough – “as big a group as Indians and Malays” – to warrant introducing a quota system to ensure “even distribution” of PRs across estates, which will help the efforts to integrate and naturalise them.

PRs will otherwise “remain separated”, he said. Continue reading →

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