1. AD13LM Land Management Lecture 2: Singapore’s Land Planning

2. Singapore’s Land Planning
URA’s role
Planning constraints & solutions
Concept Plan, Master Plan
Land Acquisition
HDB’s influence in urban planning
Infrastructure
- Benefits and Setbacks
- Land Transport Master Plan
7. Other highlights
8. Central Business District
9. Industrial

3. 1. URA’s role Long term (Concept Plan) and
medium term (Master Plan) planning
Agent for govt in carrying out land sales
Conservation
Development control
– Devt Control Division grants planning approval

4. 2. Planning constraints & solutions
Not all land can be developed
- Water catchment: 40% of land area
- Land for military use
Height restrictions imposed by airports
- flight paths (Tampines, Simei, Changi) ≤ 12 storeys

5. Solutions to limited land
Land reclamation
Intensify use eg
- stormwater collection points below flyovers;
- stack up factories
- locate train and bus stations together

6. 3. Master Plan and Concept Plan
Main legislation governing town planning
Chief Planner – Competent Authority for the administration of the Planning Act

7. Master Plan Guides S’pore’s development in the medium term.
Gives details on:
- Zoning, Permissible land use
- Density
Reviewed once every 5 years
Translates the broad long term strategies in the Concept Plan into detailed land use plans

8. Master Plan 2014 Focus: To build townships for all ages that:
Are green, healthy,
Are connected, strong in community interaction
Will bring quality jobs closer to home
Highlights:
Jurong Lake District
New MRT lines

9. Concept Plan Strategic land use and transportation plan
Time frame: 40 to 50 years
Reviewed: every 10 years
Objective: to ensure sufficient land to meet long term population and economic growth while providing a good quality living environment

10. Concept Plan
Concept Plan 1971: ‘Ring Plan’ – satellite towns around water catchment areas
CP 1991: Decentralisation – Regional, Sub Regional
and Fringe areas
CP 2001: Wide choice of housing options in city to inject vibrancy into the central area
CP2011: Roadmap to cater to population growth by 2030

11. 4 Differences between Master Plan and Concept Plan
1. Master Plan : statutory plan Concept Plan: strategic plan 2. Master Plan : Reviewed every 5 years Concept Plan: Reviewed every 10 years 3. MP: Details land use, plot ratio, building height CP: strategic concept of land use; broad percentages for land use 4. MP: Cannot be easily changed CP: Could be modified after review eg the Ring concept of CP1991 did not materialise entirely

12. Land Acquisition
HDB – developed public housing, commercial, industrial properties, infrastructure

13. 6. Infrastructure
Refers to roads and other transportation network, water supply and waste discharge, energy supply and telecommunications.
Cost and benefit may be difficult to justify at times as cost is usually very high
Eg: It took 9 studies over 10 years to proceed with the MRT system due to the large investment of $5 billion

14. Benefits of having Infrastructure
Produces growth for the city – has distributional effects
Attracts MNCs.
Infrastructure (ports, airports, road network) help growth of exports and increases market potential for Singapore-made products

15. Setbacks of providing Infrastructure
Disproportionately high land use
Eg Roads take up 12% of land, housing: 14%
Social impact – communities can be formed or separated by road networks.
Noise, pollution and crowds

16. Land Transport Master Plan 2013
More integrated transport network
Integrated Transport Hubs – AMK, Boon Lay, Clementi, Sengkang, Serangoon, Toa Payoh, Bedok, Jurong East.
New: Bukit Panjang, Hougang, Joo Koon, Marina South, Yishun
Cycling

17. New North-South Expressway
KL – Singapore High Speed Railway
New MRT lines

18. Challenge Growing a city through providing infrastructureVS
Need to contain congestion;
Land constraints
Conclusion:
Public transport is the only sustainable way to meet the competing needs of transport growth and land use

19. Land Transport Master Plan 2013

20. 7. Other highlights Waste water - Deep Tunnel Sewerage System
Integration of canals, rivers, reservoirs and lakes
Relocation of Tanjong Pagar port – Southern Watefront City
Relocation of Paya Lebar Air Base
Changi Airport Terminal 5
Creation of Marina Bay Reservoir

21. Relocation of Tanjong Pagar Port Southern Waterfront City
Starting 2027
Prime land in Tanjong Pagar will be freed to build a Southern City from Shenton Way to Pasir Panjang

22. 8. Central Business District
Raffles Place/Shenton Way/Golden Shoe
Marina Bay Financial Centre
Since the opening of One Raffles Quay in 2006, financial centre slowly shifting away from Raffles Place
Tanjong Pagar and Rochor Bugis positioned as a major commercial hub – South Beach Tower, 2015 (5 million sq ft office space) and Guocco Tower (2016/2017)
“Live, work, play” environment created – to create vibrancy; overcomes one of weaknesses for Shenton Way and Raffles Place.

23. “Golden Shoe”
Raffles Place
Robinson Road
Shenton Way

24. 9. Industrial
JTC has intensified land use through increase in plot ratio
Redeveloped old estates
Land reclamation, Jurong Island
Science Parks/Business parks
Specialised Parks – One North, Clean Tech Park, Seletar Aerospace and so on

25. Singapore’s Land Planning
URA’s role
Planning constraints & solutions
Concept Plan, Master Plan
Land Acquisition
HDB’s influence in urban planning
Infrastructure
- Benefits and Setbacks
- Land Transport Master Plan
7. Other highlights
8. Central Business District
9. Industrial