HDB unveils plans for new park in upcoming Bidadari estate

Singapore

A RUSTIC landscape with meandering hills, a boardwalk across a marshland and a unique rain tree "island" set in the middle of a lake.

This will be a sight that will greet residents of the upcoming Bidadari estate, which will have 10,000 Housing and Development Board (HDB) units and be progressively completed by 2022.

Details of Bidadari Park were revealed on Sunday at a media briefing by HDB, which led the development of the project.

At 10 hectares, the size of about 15 football fields, the park is among the largest done by the statutory board. The park will take up 10 per cent of the estate's space and nestle snugly among the residential block…