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Standard apartment for 2, 3, 4 and 5 rooms - Internal square metres (40–55 m 2, 65 m 2, 90–94 m 2 and 110–120 m 2) Semi-solid timber doors for all rooms (OCS) Glazed ceramic tiles for Living/Dining & Bedrooms (OCS) Optional Component Scheme (OCS) – More flexibility and choices to have floor finishes and internal timber doors installed.
The blocks were completed by the board in October 1960, becoming the first flats to have been completed by the HDB. Residents began moving into the buildings in early 1961. The three blocks are all 7-storeys tall and rental flats. [1] They include one, two and three-room units, [2] with fifteen units on every floor. [3]
3-storey walk-up apartments (Blocks 16, 24, 26 and 32) 3-storey walk-up apartment (Block 24, Dakota Crescent) 2-storey commercial blocks/shop house (Block 12) 2-storey commercial block (Block 12, Dakota Crescent) The first storey was commercialized and used as shop houses e.g. Tian Kee & Co. Provision Shop, while the second storey was residential.
A window which was octagonal and read "Meyer Flats" was placed above the roof. [1] A window, described by Davison as a "quasi-Venetian affair", could be found at the upper stairwell. [1] Each of the 12 units in the building featured two bedrooms with attached bathrooms, a living area, a "small" dressing room, two servants' rooms and a kitchen. [2]
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In 2009, the HDB introduced the Lease Buyback Scheme, under which the HDB buys a proportion of the housing unit's lease at current resale prices. Additional schemes, such as the Silver Housing Bonus, under which the homeowner moves to a smaller flat, and the two-room Flexi scheme consisting of smaller flats with shorter leases, were introduced ...
A flat stuck with the en-bloc notice. The Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme , or SERS for short, is an urban redevelopment strategy employed by the Housing and Development Board in Singapore in maintaining and upgrading public housing flats in older estates in the city-state.
After the fire, the HDB focused its efforts on Bukit Ho Swee's redevelopment, rapidly designing and constructing a public housing estate on the fire's site, with people displaced by urban renewal projects and kampong fires rehoused in the estate's flats. Their occupants disliked the one-room emergency flats, so by the mid-1960s, the HDB had ...