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14 HDB blocks in Jurong East to undergo lift upgrading

Posted on 15 Nov 2009 | Comments Off on 14 HDB blocks in Jurong East to undergo lift upgrading

Fourteen HDB blocks in Jurong East will undergo lift upgrading.

This was announced by Senior Minister of State for National Development, Grace Fu, at a community event on Sunday.

Ms Fu said blocks 103 to 116, which were built in the early 80s, will get their lifts upgraded.

She said: “For Jurong East Yuhua, this will be our second last precinct; we have one more precinct to go, we hope we are able to get it next year.”

Ms Fu had earlier joined some 1,000 residents, grassroots leaders and volunteers in the precinct in a mass cleanup of the neighbourhood as part of this year’s Clean and Green Week.

Ms Fu, who is also MP for Jurong GRC, said residents can do more to keep the estates clean.

The town council was asked to stop cleaning for one day to see the effect.

Ms Fu said: “It showed there was a lot of littering, especially high rise littering. So I think that is an area we can really focus on in terms of public education, as well as getting residents to play their part.”

The mass cleanup was the largest so far in Yuhua, taking place in seven zones involving 14 blocks.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 15 Nov 2009

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Singapore Property : Upgrade lifts in ineligible blocks too

Posted on 8 Nov 2009 | Comments Off on Singapore Property : Upgrade lifts in ineligible blocks too

I refer to last Sunday’s article, ‘Sorry, no lift for your floor’, which reported Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu as saying that 200 out of about 5,300 blocks built before 1990 are ineligible for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP).

The reason these blocks – including the Lorong Ah Soo maisonette block (right) mentioned in the article – are ineligible is that upgrading them would severely bust the cost cap of $30,000 for each unit.

As the $5.5 billion lift upgrading scheme is a nationwide exercise to provide lifts which stop on every floor for Housing Board residents, it should be carried out with impartiality in all wards and for all blocks.

Moreover, $5.5 billion is a large sum and if it is spent wisely, it should be able to cover the costs of lift upgrading for these 200 blocks.

Also, with so many HDB blocks within each ward or constituency, installing or upgrading the lifts can be done at a much lower cost.

The LUP should be viewed from a macro, rather than a micro, perspective, as at least 85 per cent of our population live in HDB flats.

Another issue I wish to raise is the extravagant finishes of some of the upgraded lift lobbies and interiors.

Some of these are comparable to, or even better than, those in private condominiums. Continue reading →

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