Potong Pasir

All about HIP

• 2008: "Meanwhile, opposition MP Chiam See Tong (Potong Pasir) asked why the flats in his ageing ward have not been upgraded over the two decades in which upgrading has been available. Ms Fu replied that while his ward is eligible for the upgrades, the Government prioritises districts based on their support of government policies". http://www.asiaone.com/Business/My+Money/Property/Story/A1Story20080122-46004.html
• Extract of Parliament Report, 6 Feb 2009 COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY DEBATEMINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTThe HIP is a new upgrading programme for flats built in 1986 or before that have not undergone flat upgrading. "The repair of spalling concrete is only one of the improvements under HIP. The incidence of spalling concrete is not high. It is at about five cases per thousand flats, or 0.5%"http://www.pap.org.sg/articleview.php?id=4420&cid=84
• http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10328p.nsf/w/UpgradeWhatsHIP?OpenDocument
  • Essential Improvements include:
    • Replacement of waste pipes
    • Repair of spalling concrete
    • Repair of structural cracks
    • Replacement of pipe sockets
    • Upgrading of electrical supply
  • Optional Improvements
    • Upgrading of toilets/bathrooms
    • Replacement of entrance door
    • Replacement of grille gate
    • Replacement of refuse chute hopper

Potong Pasir

• SIT's early plans for the Estate, the new town planning concept was evident with their plans to build housing estates around a commercial centre[3].
• HDB took over in 1960, they fully adopted the new town planning concept on a large scale, building entire towns from scratch
  • Queenstown thus became the HDB's model of its version of a New Town
  • Based on the new town concept, each HDB town is designed to be self-sustainable. Helmed by a hierarchy of commercial developments, ranging from a town centre to precinct-level outlets, there is no need to venture out of town to meet the most common needs of residences. Employment can be found in industrial estates located within several towns. Educational, health care, and recreational needs are also taken care of with the provision of schools, hospitals, parks, sports complexes, and so on.
  • HDB towns are typically sub-divided into neighbourhoods, with most neighbourhoods served by a neighbourhood commercial centre. Depending on the size of the town, there can be as many as nine neighbourhoods, to as little as two. Except for the older towns, estates and consolidated towns, most towns use the first digit of their block numbers to indicate the neighbourhood in which the block is located in.
  • Each neighbourhood is in turn composed of multiple precincts, which are built on the concept of promoting communal exchanges and which are more secure. While older precincts may merely involve dividing rows of identical blocks in relatively close proximity without any other real interaction with each other, newer precincts are designed to physically envelop a common space, or centred around some kind of communal facility such as a multi-storey carpark. While precinct boundaries may be difficult to physically distinguish in older precincts, they are usually obvious in newer precincts through the physical layout of the block and their unique architectural design. Newer precincts (and upgraded older precincts) also often adopt fanciful names reminiscent of private developments to lend an air of class and belonging, although these names are often not used in reality since they are sometimes not displayed and are not part of official addresses

HDB timeline

• SIT Estates:
  • Tiong Bahru in the Bukit Merah area.
  • Princess Margaret Estate in Queenstown: construction began in July 1952,
• HDB
  • Toa Payoh which was the first town to be built entirely from the ground up by the HDB.
  • Estates
    • Small areas such as in the city centre,Changi Village, Lim Chu Kang, Farrer Park and Seletar,
    • larger areas such as in Bukit Timah and Marine Parade, but these has since been halted in favour of concentrating public housing developments only in major HDB towns.
  • Reorganise the smaller estates and amalgamate them into "HDB Towns",
    • Bukit Merah, Geylang andKallang/Whampoa,
    • Simei, sometimes referred to as an Estate and a New Town, has since been amalgamated intoTampines. Thus, there are now officially 23 "HDB Towns" and three "Other Estates".
  • Discontinuous new Towns
    • Bishan and Serangoon.
    • significant areas of non-public housing use.
      • Hougang
      • The reorganised "new towns" of Bukit Merah, Geylang and Kallang/Whampoa
    • very little private housing and no landed properties
      • Jurong East,Jurong West, Tampines, Toa Payoh and Yishun,
    • small pockets of landed properties.
      • Ang Mo Kio, Choa Chu Kang, Clementi, and Woodlands
  • New Plans
    • Tengah (consisting of big area Brickland Road, Bukit Batok Road, Jurong Road, PIE and Old Choa Chu Kang Road),
    • Simpang (consisting of big military land), Bukit Brown (consisting of Bukit Brown Cemetery)
    • Tebing (consisting of KPE, TPE, Sungei Serangoon and Buangkok East Drive)
    • Bidadari (consisting of Bidadari Cemetery)
    • Seletar New Towns (consisting of housing area, of Seletar Aerospace Park);
  • Expansion plans:
    • Tampines, Pasir Ris and Choa Chu Kang when every other expanding places is saturated.
    • Western Water Catchment (consisting of Tengeh, Poyan, Murai and Sarimbun Reservoirs), Mandai and Seletar West.