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Policy before and after · Planning

Singapore introduces the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes and announces the end of the Bonus Plot Ratio scheme

Announced 27 March 2019 · Effective 27 March 2019

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Comparison window

Comparison anchored to effective date: 27 March 2019. Before: 27 December 2018 to 26 March 2019. After: 27 March 2019 to 24 June 2019. The same 90 days on each side; the anchor day counts as after.

Before · 27 Dec 2018 to 26 Mar 2019

4 land-sales awards

  • 8 land-sales steps in all
  • 0 other archive events

The event

Announced 27 Mar 2019

Effective 27 Mar 2019

The effective date is the anchor.

After · 27 Mar 2019 to 24 Jun 2019

2 land-sales awards

  • 7 land-sales steps in all
  • All 90 days observable

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Recorded

  • 6 policy parameters recorded with a before and an after value on this event.
  • 4 land-sales awards in the 90 days before the effective date, and 2 in the 90 observable days after.
  • No market series is mapped to this kind of event.

Cannot be concluded

  • That this event moved any figure on this page. The comparison is by date; nothing here is attributed to the event.
  • A reading of the concurrent land sales and events as responses to this one. They are listed by date alone.
About this eventIssuing authority, category, affected market, primary source, summary
Announced
27 March 2019
Effective
27 March 2019
Issuing authority
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Category
Planning
Affected market
Existing developments at least 20 years old from the date of last TOP, subject to each scheme's exemptions. Under the CBD Incentive Scheme, predominantly office developments in selected parts of Anson, Cecil Street, and Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar that meet a minimum site area. Under the Strategic Development Incentive Scheme, commercial or predominantly commercial mixed-use developments in strategic areas outside the CBD Incentive areas, normally two or more adjacent sites. The Bonus Plot Ratio rescission concerns commercial developments near five designated MRT stations.
Primary source
Circular URA/PB/2019/02-CUDG, Circular Package: Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas

On 27 March 2019 URA introduced two rejuvenation incentives with the Draft Master Plan 2019. The Strategic Development Incentive Scheme, in effect that day, lets owners of older commercial buildings in strategic areas seek deviations from GPR, use and height, judged proposal by proposal with no fixed bonus. The CBD Incentive Scheme, in effect from the Master Plan 2019 gazette, allows office buildings at least 20 years old in parts of Anson, Cecil Street and the Robinson Road area to convert to mixed use with up to 30% more intensity for residential with ground-floor commercial and 25% for other options. URA also said the Bonus Plot Ratio scheme would end with the gazette.

In brief

In brief

  • 4 GLS site awards were recorded in the before window and 2 in the after window.

What changed

Policy parameterBeforeAfter
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Residential with Commercial at 1st storeyUnknown30%
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Commercial and ResidentialUnknown25%
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, HotelUnknown25%
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, Commercial with 40% non-commercial usesUnknown25%
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, Commercial and ResidentialUnknown25%
CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, HotelUnknown25%
Where these values come from
Source
Recorded on this event's policy matrix in Prevo's archive. The event's primary source: Circular URA/PB/2019/02-CUDG, Circular Package: Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas.
Primary source published
27 March 2019
Validity
In force from the event's effective date, 27 March 2019. The row records no date of its own; the date is the event's.
Basis
Archive record. The matrix row carries no source reference of its own; the event's sources are listed below.

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Concurrent planning and land activity

Land sales and other archive events dated inside the windows, listed by date only. Each land-sales line shows the site as the record stood on that day.

Before the effective date

8 lines

8 land-sales steps (4 awards) · 0 archive events

From the effective date

7 lines

7 land-sales steps (2 awards) · 0 archive events

Explore concurrent events

Before (8)

  1. 15 January 2019 · Land sales

    Tampines Avenue 10: Tender closed

    Executive Condominium housing · status on 15 January 2019: Tender closed, award pending

  2. 15 January 2019 · Land sales

    Kampong Java Road: Tender closed

    Residential · status on 15 January 2019: Tender closed, award pending

  3. 15 January 2019 · Land sales

    Club Street: Tender closed

    Hotel · status on 15 January 2019: Tender closed, award pending

  4. 21 January 2019 · Land sales

    Kampong Java Road: Awarded

    Residential · status on 21 January 2019: Awarded · awarded to CELH Development Pte. Ltd. at S$418,380,000

  5. 21 January 2019 · Land sales

    Club Street: Awarded

    Hotel · status on 21 January 2019: Awarded · awarded to Midtown Development Pte Ltd at S$562,200,000

  6. 22 January 2019 · Land sales

    Tampines Avenue 10: Awarded

    Executive Condominium housing · status on 22 January 2019: Awarded · awarded to Hoi Hup Realty Pte Ltd and Sunway Developments Pte Ltd at S$434,450,000

  7. 28 February 2019 · Land sales

    Clementi Avenue 1: Launched for tender

    Residential · status on 28 February 2019: Tender open

  8. 22 March 2019 · Land sales

    Pasir Ris Drive 3 / Pasir Ris Drive 8 / Pasir Ris Central: Awarded

    Mixed commercial and residential · status on 22 March 2019: Awarded · awarded to Phoenix Residential Pte. Ltd. & Phoenix Commercial Pte. Ltd. at S$700,000,000

After (7)

  1. 28 March 2019 · Land sales

    Sims Drive: Tender closed

    Residential · status on 28 March 2019: Tender closed, award pending

  2. 28 March 2019 · Land sales

    Middle Road: Tender closed

    Residential with Commercial at 1st Storey · status on 28 March 2019: Tender closed, award pending

  3. 29 March 2019 · Land sales

    Tan Quee Lan Street: Launched for tender

    Residential with Commercial at 1st Storey · status on 29 March 2019: Tender open

  4. 5 April 2019 · Land sales

    Sims Drive: Awarded

    Residential · status on 5 April 2019: Awarded · awarded to Intrepid Investments Pte. Ltd. and CDL Constellation Pte. Ltd. at S$383,529,936

  5. 5 April 2019 · Land sales

    Middle Road: Awarded

    Residential with Commercial at 1st Storey · status on 5 April 2019: Awarded · awarded to Wingcharm Investment Pte. Ltd. at S$491,999,999

  6. 16 May 2019 · Land sales

    Canberra Link: Launched for tender

    Executive Condominium housing · status on 16 May 2019: Tender open

  7. 30 May 2019 · Land sales

    Bernam Street: Launched for tender

    Residential with Commercial at 1st Storey · status on 30 May 2019: Tender open

Recorded relationships

Methodology5 rules
  • Comparison anchored to effective date: 27 March 2019. The anchor is the effective date where one is recorded, otherwise the announcement date.
  • The windows are the same number of days on each side of the anchor, and the anchor day belongs to the after window.
  • A series counts toward a window only for observation periods wholly inside it, with values as originally recorded, not as later revised.
  • Where no whole period falls inside a window, no value and no difference is stated; a day no whole period covers is missing, never zero.
  • Concurrent land sales and archive events are listed by date alone. Nothing on this page is attributed to the event.

Sources

The event's sources (5)

Primary sources5

  • Circular URA/PB/2019/02-CUDG, Circular Package: Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019

    Open original source

  • Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG, Appendix 1-1 to 1-3: CBD Incentive Scheme area sheets (Anson; Cecil Street; Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar)

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019

    Open original source

  • Circular URA/PB/2019/03-CUDG, Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas: Strategic Development Incentive Scheme

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019

    Open original source

  • Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG, Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas: CBD Incentive Scheme

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019

    Open original source

  • Circular URA/PB/2019/20-PPG, Gazette of Master Plan 2019

    Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 November 2019

    Open original source

Event checked against its primary sources on 27 September 2026. Each claim keeps its own verification status.

Observed series come from the published statistics named on each card. Land-sales lines link to the site record and its releases.