Deferred Upper Serangoon site back on the public tender trail

Singapore

A HOUSING & Development Board (HDB) site that was deferred for public tender last December has now been launched for sale.

HDB on Monday put up the mixed commercial and residential site at Upper Serangoon Road for sale under the confirmed list of the government land sales (GLS) programme.

As part of the development of Bidadari estate, the 99-year leasehold site was deferred to allow the site requirements to be finalised for "comprehensive development".

HDB said that this was mainly to straighten out details for the requirements to build a community club and a neighbourhood police centre to be integrated with the development. These are new criteria and therefore needed time to be clarified. There are also criteria to build a commercial bridge and…