HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN MANDAI AND THOMSON

Dr Koh Lip Lin asked the Minister for National Development what are the development plans for the following lands which were recently acquired by the Land Office for the use of the Housing and Development Board (i) the land bounded by Mandai Road, Meng Suan Garden and Thong Bee Road; and (ii) the land bounded by Old Upper Thomson Road, Lorong Sunyi, Sindo Industrial Estate and Upper Thomson Road.

Mr Lee Yock Suan (for the Minister for National Development): Mr Speaker, Sir, the land bounded by Mandai Road, Meng Suan Garden and Thong Bee Road will be used for middle-income housing development by the Housing and Development Board.

The land bounded by old Thomson Road, Lorong Sunyi, Sindo Industrial Estate and Upper Thomson Road forms part of the proposed HDB Seletar Estate. The first phase of public housing development in the area will commence in 1984.