Flats in these 12-storey blocks at Kampong Tiong Bahru estate are sold under the "home owneship for the people" scheme
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gapore is largely motivated by the need to clear the squatter slums and to reduce the incidence of fires.
During 1967 a further total of 2,734 flats and 77 shops were com- pleted at Tiong Bahru while another 1,172 units of flats and shops as well as 210 hawkers' stalls were under construction.
Queenstown
The development of Queenstown can be said to have "come of age" during 1967 when the main outstand- ing schemes in the town centre were completed. Two cinemas, an empo- rium and a new shopping complex are now completed.
Because of the present popularity of the area, the Queenstown project has been extended by the addition of two neighbourhoods to the five which were originally planned and complet- ed. Work on the two new neighbour- hoods progressed satisfactorily and at the end of 1967 there were 2,743 units of flats and shops under con- struction in Neighbourhood 6, while land acquisition in Neighbourhood 7 was finally completed after protracted negotiations.
MacPherson Road (South) Estate
This is by far the biggest of the Board's estates in the north and east of the City next to Toa Payoh. Dur- ing the year a total of 322 flats and 29 shops, as well as 510 hawkers' stalls in three hawkers' centres, were completed. At present the estate con- tains 10,484 flats and shops providing accommodation for about 65,000 people.
Upper Changi Estate
This estate has been specially built to rehouse the people affected by the East Coast Reclamation project. 712 flats and shops out of the total of 832 units planned for the estate were com- pleted by the end of 1966 and the remaining 120 units were completed during 1967.
Far East BUILDER, August 1968.
Toa Payoh
Toa Payoh is the second satellite town and it is planned to be complet- ed under the 2nd 5-Year Plan. It will contain 30,000 flats and shops as well as a town centre and a sports com- plex.
In 1967, 3,541 flats and shops were completed at Toa Payoh together with one girls' home-craft centre and 162 hawkers' stalls. A further 6,805 flats and shops and two neighbourhood shopping centres were under construc- tion at the end of the year. Bukit Merah Re-Development
This is one of several projects which the Board undertook during 1967 in connection with the re-deve- lopment of the uneconomic estates built by the S.I.T. In Bukit Merah (Redhill), 32 acres of land were made available by the demolition of 388 units of single-storeyed "artisans' quarters" built by the S.I.T. in 1951- 1953, and which had been subjected to periodical flooding.
The filling up of the cleared site in order to raise its level was completed in 1966 and by the end of 1967 a total of 700 units of one-room im- proved flats had been completed while
Ten-storey flats at Toa Payoh New Town
1,740 flats and 36 shops were, under construction.
Henderson Road Re-Development
Under another project aimed at re- placing the "artisans' quarters" 110 quarters at Henderson Road, were demolished to make way for 472 units of 4-room flats which were completed during 1967.
Upper Aljunied Road Estate
This was yet another estate affected by the policy to re-develop unecono- mic S.I.T. built properties under the 2nd 5-year programme. 191 arti- sans' quarters were demolished and in their place, 386 flats and 46 shops, together with 162 hawkers' stalls were completed during 1967, while another 836 flats and shops were under con- struction at the end of the year.
Prince Charles Crescent
This development is an extension of Alexandra North Estate built by the S.I.T. in 1950. 1,399 units of one- room improved flats and 9 shops were under construction at the end of the
year.
Kallang Basin Estate
The reclamation of Kallang Basin which is currently in progress will yield about 400 acres of land. 130 acres will be used for housing while the remaining 270 acres will be zoned for use by labour-intensive industries.
The development of housing and industrial properties had already started. In the residential zone, work on the development of Neighbour- hoods I and II started in 1965 and in 1966 1,686 units of flats and shops were completed. In 1967, a total of 1,176 flats and 60 shops together with 420 hawkers' stalls were completed.
In 1966 the Board also undertook the construction of two blocks of 7- storey flatted factories. These were the first flatted factories to be built by the Board which also embarked on a new scheme to build 100 terrace fac- tories in the Kallang Basin. Each terrace factory has a covered floor area of 1,000 sq. ft. together with 700 sq. ft. of paved area.
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