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Another wet market to close down

Posted on 3 Oct 2009 | Comments Off

SEMBAWANG may soon be the next neighbourhood to lose a wet market – its only one at that.

Its 14 stallholders at the market in Canberra Road have been told to go by the end of this month.

This is because the master tenant, Sembawang New Market, is ending its lease with the Housing and Development Board, the owner of the market.

The space will probably be taken over by a FairPrice supermarket, pending approval by the HDB. The papers to transfer the tenancy to NTUC FairPrice were submitted a few weeks ago, and are still being evaluated.

Meanwhile, some residents in the neighbourhood are upset at the prospect of losing the wet market; stallholders there are also aggrieved over the short notice they have been given.

The situation there echoes that of the five other heartland wet markets which made the news this week.

The wet markets in Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Batok West, Serangoon and Pasir Panjang – among the minority here which are privately owned – also look set to go. Continue reading →

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Sale of five wet markets hits a snag

Posted on 2 Oct 2009 | 1 comment

The stallholders at this wet market in Serangoon Avenue 3, among the few privately owned wet markets in Singapore, have been given their eviction letters. The HDB has said, however, that it has yet to give the go-ahead to the developer for the sale of the markets.

A QUESTION mark now hangs over the sale and impending closure of five heartland wet markets, a development which has riled residents and stallholders in those neighbourhoods.

The Housing Board (HDB) has stepped in to say that it has yet to receive an application from boutique property developer Heeton Holdings for clearance to sell the wet markets to supermarket chain Sheng Siong.

Without the HDB’s go-ahead, the sale would be illegal.

Sheng Siong had told The Straits Times that it planned to build ‘air-conditioned markets’ on the sites, and affected stallholders said letters they received last month gave them until mid-December to move out.

The five wet markets – in Choa Chu Kang Street 62, Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1, Serangoon Avenue3, Bukit Batok West Avenue 8 and Fajar Road – are among the few privately owned wet markets here. Heeton bought them between 1994 and 1996 for use as wet markets in separate tenders called by the HDB. Continue reading →