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The Interlace's site formerly housed the 607 units Gillman Heights Condominium, which is 50 percent owned by the National University of Singapore (NUS). [6] The property was subsequently sold to CapitaLand through a collective sale but the sale was controversial as NUS held a 16 percent stake in Ankerite, a private fund that was a subsidiary of CapitaLand.
The Buona Vista estate is centred around Holland Close, Holland Avenue and Holland Drive. It is close to the Dover and Ghim Moh estates, and Holland Village.It shares its name with North Buona Vista Road and South Buona Vista Road, which together is a hilly winding road that navigates through Kent Ridge.
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
Meyer Flats was an apartment building on Meyer Road in Katong, Singapore. Completed in 1928, it served as a companion block to the Crescent Flats , which was the first apartment building built in Singapore.
Yew Tee became a household name with the construction of the Yew Tee MRT station which is located where the village used to be, near Stagmont Ring. [ 3 ] The Yew Tee Community Centre, set up in 1963 and one of Singapore's oldest community centres, closed down in 1998.
One of the plans included developing the Kallang area (just to the east of the town-centre) into Singapore's equivalent of London's Hyde Park. This master-plan was reported in the local newspaper, The Straits Times, dated from 11 March 1955. [8] The low-rise brick-clad flats of Dakota Crescent Estate were built by SIT in 1958. [9]
Planning areas, also known as DGP areas or DGP zones, are the main urban planning and census divisions of Singapore delineated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.There are 55 of these areas, organised into five regions.
By 1968, policies were formulated so that Singaporeans could use their CPF to pay and own an HDB flat. [20] Halimah Yacob, sworn in as the 8th President of the Republic of Singapore on 14 September 2017, the first female President in Singapore's history was a notable resident at Selegie House. [21]