URA tightens the conditions on CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive redevelopments, leaving the incentives unchanged

Developers must ensure that at least 15% of the total car park lots can support a 3-phase AC Type 2 charger of 7kW, which the circular calls passive provision.

A new condition with no before-value; neither 2019 circular carried a charging condition. The percentage is of total car park lots. The circular calls the figures "a start" and says proposals must comply with prevailing requirements as they are updated. Active provision is approved by LTA at plan submission and checked at the Certificate of Statutory Completion stage; passive provision is declared to LTA.

Of the lots with passive provision, at least 1% must be installed with charging points, which the circular calls active provision.

Within the 15%, not beside it. The sentence reads "of which at least 1%", so the two figures are never added. It does not say in terms whether the 1% is measured against the total car park lots or against the 15% of lots. No before-value.

CBD Incentive redevelopments must adopt the lower bound of the Range-Based Parking Provision Standards, except that for residential units of at least 100 sqm nett floor area the developer may instead adopt LTA's prevailing Code of Practice and provide parking within that range.

CBD incentive scheme only, and a new threshold. In 2019 the lower bound applied to every use; no unit-size threshold existed, so no before-value is stored. Units under 100 sqm and all non-residential uses keep the lower bound. The Strategic Development Incentive appendix carries no parking condition.

The CBD Incentive Scheme remained open to predominantly office developments at least 20 years old from the date of last TOP in selected parts of Anson, Cecil Street, and Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar.

Unchanged from 2019, stored so a reader does not assume the age gate moved. Exemptions can be considered case by case. The selected parts are defined by maps that were not read, and Prevo holds no boundary for them.

The CBD Incentive minimum site area remained 1,000 sqm in Anson, and 1,000 sqm for corner sites and 2,000 sqm for all other sites in Cecil Street and in Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar.

The stored value is the smaller figure, the whole requirement only in Anson. In Table 2 the Cecil Street pair sits in a cell spanning the Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar row, and Appendix 2-3 states the pair for that area in terms. Covered by the circular's statement that qualifying criteria did not change.

In Anson and Cecil Street the CBD Incentive Scheme kept three conversion options from office use: Residential with Commercial at 1st storey at up to 30% intensification, Commercial and Residential at 25%, and Hotel at 25%.

Unchanged from 2019, and three caps, never one. The stored 30 is the cap for Residential with Commercial at 1st storey only. Each cap is a maximum, assessed against detailed design and site context, and URA may refuse or condition approval.

In Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar the CBD Incentive Scheme kept three conversion options from office use, Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial Uses such as Residential, Commercial and Residential, and Hotel, each at up to 25% intensification.

Unchanged from 2019. The 40% is a use mix and the 25% is a cap; they are different quantities and are never combined. In 2022 the Commercial with 40% option was not available in Anson or Cecil Street.

The Strategic Development Incentive Scheme remained open to commercial or predominantly commercial mixed-use developments at least 20 years old from the date of last TOP, normally amalgamating at least two adjacent sites.

Unchanged from 2019. Developments with predominantly residential uses are not eligible, and paragraph 7 allows exemptions from all three criteria where a redevelopment benefits more than its own site. The 2019 sentence encouraging applications in Orchard Road, the CBD and Marina Centre is absent from the 2022 appendix.

The updated conditions apply to all redevelopment proposals under either scheme submitted on or after 4 April 2022, which must also comply with the prevailing urban design guidelines for their planning areas.

The trigger is the submission date, not the date of approval. The circular says nothing about proposals submitted before 4 April 2022 and still being evaluated.

The circular stated that the extent of the incentives and the qualifying criteria of both schemes did not change.

The incentives and criteria only. What the circular revised were the conditions imposed on redevelopments. The intensification caps in Appendix 2 Table 3 match the 2019 table figure for figure (claims 16 and 17). Two wording additions to the CBD Incentive appendix that are not marked new are claim 21.

Every redevelopment under either scheme must attain at least Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy or an equivalent standard, together with the Maintainability and Whole of Life Carbon badges, where the CBD Incentive Scheme had required a minimum Green Mark Platinum score.

The before-value is for the CBD incentive scheme only. The 2019 Strategic Development Incentive circular stated no fixed Green Mark standard, saying only that Green Mark bonus GFA would not apply "if a minimum Green Mark score is required"; for that scheme the standard is new. The published February 2025 event records the same tier in the 2025 annexes, so the rise to Platinum Super Low Energy is this circular's.

Proposals must meet Construction Industry Transformation Map outcomes in digitalisation, productivity and sustainability; URA assesses digitalisation and productivity case by case at the Outline Application, and may expect projects to deploy photovoltaics where applicable.

No threshold is stated for digitalisation or productivity, and no photovoltaic quantity. "May also be expected" makes photovoltaics an expectation, not a stated requirement.

The additional bonus GFA under the Built Environment Transformation Gross Floor Area Incentive Scheme does not apply to CBD Incentive or Strategic Development Incentive proposals.

A bar on stacking one scheme, not all bonus GFA. The appendices keep bonus GFA under other schemes, such as balconies and indoor recreation spaces, within the prevailing overall cap. No BE Transformation quantum is stated here.

The commercial component of a CBD Incentive or Strategic Development Incentive redevelopment may not be strata subdivided into individual units, except to delineate between different commercial uses.

The commercial component only. The March circular gives office, shop and restaurant uses as examples of commercial uses, allows an office lot and a retail lot to be separated, and notes that hotel and serviced apartment developments may not be strata subdivided under prevailing guidelines. Residential strata subdivision is not addressed.

After the Outline Application stage, selected key sites under either scheme are subject to review by a Design Advisory Panel as part of the formal submission.

In the appendices only. The circular body does not list this among the updated conditions. The appendices do not say how key sites are selected or who sits on the panel.

The intensification percentages are measured against the Master Plan 2019 gross plot ratio or the approved gross plot ratio, whichever is higher.

The base, not a plot ratio for any site. No parcel figure is stated or stored. Allowed uses also remain subject to the statutory rezoning process under the Planning (Master Plan) Rules.

Under the Strategic Development Incentive Scheme URA may consider deviations in gross plot ratio or GFA, land use and use quantum, and building height, with no fixed bonus stated, and sites in the CBD Incentive areas are guided by that scheme instead.

Proposal specific. Evaluation turns on urban design, contribution to the community and use mix, and an approval is not a precedent. No intensification cap exists for this scheme to be stored.

The 2022 CBD Incentive appendix added that URA may refuse approval where the existing development already meets the scheme's planning intention, and that the resulting use mix should be well diversified, including a reduced office component.

Found by comparing the two texts; neither addition is marked new. These are grounds of assessment rather than eligibility criteria, so the circular's statement that qualifying criteria did not change is not contradicted in terms. No minimum office reduction is stated.

URA issued Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG on 4 April 2022, updating the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes and superseding the 2019 circular package that created them.

A circular to professional institutes, not a statute. It names building owners, developers and qualified persons as the people who should know. The package it supersedes is the three circulars of 27 March 2019, numbered 02, 03 and 04 of that year.

The circular stated an effective period running from 4 April 2022 to 26 November 2024.

An end date, and nothing more. The end date was printed by July 2022, so it is part of the 2022 document. The circular gives no reason for it, does not tie it to the Master Plan 2019 gazette, states no extension and does not say what happens to a proposal submitted before it and decided after it.

The strata subdivision bar had first been applied to CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive redevelopments by Circular URA/PB/2022/02-CUDG, with effect from 15 March 2022.

Twenty days before this event. The April circular restated the bar as a scheme condition and refers to the March circular for details. The March circular also restricts strata subdivision along named corridors of the Central Area, which is outside this event.

URA said it had reviewed and updated the conditions to respond to changing needs and industry feedback, and gave its reasons: to accelerate construction transformation outcomes, to prepare developments for electric vehicles in line with the aim that all vehicles run on cleaner energy by 2040, to keep rejuvenated districts well maintained, and to encourage larger family units in a car-lite city centre.

Ura's stated reasons, not observed effects. The circular names no source of the industry feedback and gives no count of proposals under either scheme.

The update raised the cost of using either scheme without raising its reward: every condition it added falls on the developer, while the incentives stayed as set in 2019, and the one easing, on parking, reaches only large CBD Incentive homes.

Prevo's reading, not a URA statement. The inputs are verified. Whether the added conditions changed any owner's decision is not observable from the held sources, which give no count of proposals before or after 4 April 2022.

The 2019 circulars ran the CBD Incentive Scheme from the Master Plan 2019 gazette and the Strategic Development Incentive Scheme from 27 March 2019, each for five years from that gazette.

The before-state for claim 2. Neither 2019 circular prints the gazette date, and no source held for this event does, so none is stated here. The 2022 end date of 26 November 2024 is consistent with a five-year period from a late November 2019 gazette, but the 2022 circular does not say so.