SINGAPORE - Tengah Air Base will be expanded, with several private land plots acquired, graves exhumed and a road realigned, the Ministry of National Development, National Environment Agency and Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said in a statement on Tuesday (July 18).
The expansion is to accommodate some of the assets and facilities from Paya Lebar Air Base, which is being relocated - freeing up 800ha of land in the north-east, and to ensure operational readiness of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).
Here are six things you may want to know about the Tengah area.
1. GOVERNMENT TO ACQUIRE 106HA OF LAND TO EXPAND TENGAH AIR BASE
A total of 106ha of land - about a quarter the size of Clementi town - will be acquired by the Government to expand Tengah Air Base.
The expansion of the Tengah military airbase of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), located in the western water catchment, will see the acquisition of several private land plots and the exhuming of more than 80,000 graves in Choa Chu Kang Cemetery.
The existing Lim Chu Kang Road, including a portion of a Heritage Road at its northern segment, will also need to be realigned.
2. TENGAH'S 'FOREST TOWN' WILL BE THE FIRST HDB TOWN TO BE DEVELOPED IN 20 YEARS
The first flats at the new town in the west, the first to be developed since Punggol about 20 years ago, are set to be launched in 2018.
The area today is largely forest and scrubland, but will eventually have 42,000 new homes: 30,000 units of public housing and 12,000 units of private housing.
Plans to develop Tengah, a 700ha site bounded by the Kranji and Pan-Island expressways, Brickland Road and Bukit Batok Road, were mooted as early as 1991 in a concept plan for Singapore in the future.
The town will include a 100m-wide, 5km-long forest corridor linking it to the surrounding green network between the western and central catchment areas.
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