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Singapore reissues the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes to 2030 and adds a conditional commercial conversion option in Anson and Cecil

On 7 February 2025 the Urban Redevelopment Authority issued revised CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes, in effect that day and running to 6 February 2030.

MEDIUM IMPORTANCEPRIMARY SOURCE CONFIRMED

Announced 7 February 2025 · Effective 7 February 2025

Original rule

as at 7 February 2025

Current position

as at 25 August 2026

Validity period, CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 and Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0

7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030

Validity period, CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 and Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0

No amendment recorded in this archive

Maximum intensification, new Anson and Cecil commercial conversion option

25%

Maximum intensification, new Anson and Cecil commercial conversion option

No amendment recorded in this archive

Non-commercial quantum, new Anson and Cecil commercial conversion option

40%

Non-commercial quantum, new Anson and Cecil commercial conversion option

No amendment recorded in this archive

Minimum Serviced Apartment II units, second alternative under the new option

200 units

Minimum Serviced Apartment II units, second alternative under the new option

No amendment recorded in this archive

Sustainability Statement

Required from all proposals under both schemes at the Outline Application stage

Sustainability Statement

No amendment recorded in this archive

Event facts

Announced
7 February 2025
Effective
7 February 2025
Announcement to effective
Same day
Regulator
Ministry of National Development, Urban Redevelopment Authority
Instruments and scope
Existing developments at least 20 years old from the date of last Temporary Occupation Permit, subject to the exemption provisions under each scheme. For the CBD Incentive Scheme, predominantly office developments in selected parts of Anson, Cecil Street, and Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar meeting the minimum site areas. For the Strategic Development Incentive Scheme, commercial or predominantly commercial mixed-use developments in strategic areas outside the CBD Incentive areas, normally amalgamating at least two adjacent sites.
Validity of CBDI 2
5 yearsFive years from a later start, not a continuation. The predecessor window closed on 26 November 2024.[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Today, I would like to take this opportunity]
Claim 2
25%Not to be combined with the 40% at claim 3. One is the permitted increase in development intensity, the other is the use mix of the result.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Table 3, Anson and Cecil rows, the row marked new]
Claim 3
40%The use mix of the result, not the uplift. Adding or multiplying it with the 25% at claim 2 produces a figure no source states.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Table 3, Anson and Cecil rows, the row marked new]
Claim 4
200 unitsNot a universal requirement. Devoting the entire non-commercial quantum to Serviced Apartment II satisfies the condition without reference to 200.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, footnote 1, repeated as footnote [a] to Table 3 of CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0]
Claim 10
30%[Appendix 2, CBD Incentive Scheme, Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, Appendix 2-1 Anson area sheet, with the identical set repeated on the Appendix 2-2 Cecil Street sheet]
Claim 11
25%[Appendix 2, CBD Incentive Scheme, Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, Appendix 2-3 Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar area sheet, read against Table 3 of CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 and Table 3 of Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG]
Claim 19
17 proposals[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
Claim 20
12 proposals[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
Claim 21
4 projects[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
Claim 23
20 years[Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0, Table 1, Age of Development row, with the same threshold in CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 Table 1]
Before this framework
The predecessor circular stated a validity period running from 4 April 2022 to 26 November 2024. In the Anson and Cecil areas the CBD Incentive Scheme offered three conversion options from office use: Residential with Commercial at 1st storey at 30%, Hotel at 25%, and Commercial and Residential at 25%. The Commercial with 40% non-commercial option was available only in Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, at 25%. Maximum intensification was measured against the Master Plan 2019 gross plot ratio or the approved gross plot ratio, whichever was higher. No Sustainability Statement was required, and no carbon optioneering assessment could be called for.
Positioning at introduction
The Minister for National Development presented the reissue as the outcome of a completed review and announced that both schemes would be extended for another five years. The circular frames the eligibility change as a relaxation made in view of market trends and industry feedback, and states that proposals are required to achieve higher sustainability standards under the Green Mark framework.
Current status
Active as introduced, no amendment recorded in this archive.

The 30-second brief

On 7 February 2025 the Urban Redevelopment Authority reissued the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes, effective that day and running to 6 February 2030. The press and the minister called it an extension. The circulars do not read that way: the predecessor stated a validity period ending 26 November 2024, so no stated validity period covers 27 November 2024 to 6 February 2025. One parameter is genuinely new, a Commercial with 40% non-commercial conversion option in Anson and Cecil at 25% maximum intensification, conditional on long-stay serviced apartments and on a meaningful reduction in office space. One obligation is genuinely new, a Sustainability Statement from every applicant under both schemes.

Key numbers

What changed

The revision is narrower than the announcement suggests. In the Anson and Cecil areas a fourth conversion option appears, Commercial with 40% non-commercial uses such as Residential, at a maximum intensification of 25%, conditional on either setting aside the entire non-commercial quantum for Serviced Apartment II use or providing at least 200 Serviced Apartment II units, and on achieving a meaningful reduction in existing office space that no source held defines. Every applicant under both schemes must now submit a Sustainability Statement at the Outline Application stage, and URA may then call for a carbon optioneering assessment. Under the Strategic Development Incentive scheme, retrofit and adaptive reuse joins the evaluation criteria and may count as a positive public contribution. Two changes appear only in the annexes and are flagged by neither circular body: the reference base for intensification moved from the Master Plan 2019 gross plot ratio to the prevailing Master Plan gross plot ratio, and photovoltaic deployment moved from conditional to expected. What did not change is longer than what did: the 20-year age gate, the minimum site areas, the three pre-existing Anson and Cecil conversion options, the Commercial with 40% option already available in Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar at the same 25%, the Strategic Development Incentive eligibility criteria, the electric vehicle provisions, the strata subdivision restriction, and the Green Mark standard itself.

Why it matters

The reference base change is the one to watch, because it moves money without moving a percentage. Table 3 still reads 25% and 30%, so a reader comparing the two circulars side by side sees no change at all. What moved is the denominator: intensification is now measured against the prevailing Master Plan gross plot ratio rather than the Master Plan 2019 figure, against the approved gross plot ratio in each case, whichever is higher. Where the prevailing plot ratio differs from the 2019 one, the same percentage yields a different floor area. Neither circular body mentions this, and it is visible only by comparing two table footnotes. The second thing that matters is what the new Anson and Cecil option costs. It is not a relaxation offered freely: a proposal electing it must commit the whole non-commercial quantum to long-stay serviced apartments or build at least 200 such units, and must reduce existing office space by an amount nobody has defined. That last condition is discretionary by construction, and a developer cannot price it in advance. The third is the Sustainability Statement, which is the only obligation the minister presented as new and which reaches every applicant under both schemes rather than the two areas the conversion option touches. It requires assessment and documentation, not retention, and the sources state no consequence for a statement judged inadequate.

What happened next

7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030

Take-up of the new Anson and Cecil commercial conversion option

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CALENDAR · 7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030Anson and Cecil CBD Incentive areas, Singapore

Interpretation

This is the one parameter the revision created rather than adjusted, and it was created in response to stated industry feedback. The test counts elections of the Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial option in Anson or Cecil, not CBD Incentive applications generally. Weak take-up would test whether the option is commercially and operationally usable. It would not by itself show that the industry feedback was unrepresentative, because financing conditions, the supply of eligible sites and the Serviced Apartment II requirement could independently suppress take-up.

Why this grade

No grade is assigned because no post-intervention series exists. URA does not publish elections of a conversion option, and the counts at claims 19 and 20 are cumulative across both schemes since 2019, so they give a starting point rather than a rate.

No source held publishes Outline Application counts by scheme, by area or by elected conversion option.

From 7 February 2025, realistically assessable from 2027

Whether the Sustainability Statement changes what gets built

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CALENDAR · From 7 February 2025, realistically assessable from 2027CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive proposals, Singapore

Interpretation

The requirement is to assess and document, not to retain, so the outcome question is whether the assessment changes design choices, retention or stated carbon performance. Complete redevelopment is not necessarily a failure of the measure: the assessment may defensibly conclude that retention is infeasible. Retention would need to be observable from planning submissions or from URA, and no source held publishes it. Weak retention could equally reflect genuinely unviable adaptive reuse, so this test identifies whether the mechanism binds and not why.

Why this grade

No grade is assigned because the measure requires documentation rather than an outcome, and no cohort of post-February 2025 outline approvals yet exists to read.

First assessable once a cohort of Outline Applications submitted after 7 February 2025 has reached in-principle support.

7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030, with delivery tracked for several years after

Long-stay serviced apartment supply arising from the new option

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CALENDAR · 7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030, with delivery tracked for several years afterAnson and Cecil CBD Incentive areas, Singapore

Interpretation

The Serviced Apartment II requirement at claim 4 is the price of the new option, so it is the mechanism by which the option is meant to add live-in population to the CBD. Any measurement must record both the units approved and which alternative was elected, because setting aside the entire non-commercial quantum and providing a minimum of 200 units produce very different unit counts from the same site.

Why this grade

No grade is assigned because no post-intervention series exists, and approvals under this option cannot be separated from other Serviced Apartment II supply in any source held.

Serviced Apartment II approvals are not published by conversion option.

7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030, against verified predecessor periods

Whether the revised schemes sustain the flow of proposals

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CALENDAR · 7 February 2025 to 6 February 2030, against verified predecessor periodsCBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive areas, Singapore

Interpretation

The 17 CBD Incentive and 12 Strategic Development Incentive figures are cumulative proposal counts, but the speech gives no submission dates and establishes no common five-year observation period for both schemes, so they cannot yet support a baseline rate. Claims 22 and 24 show the two schemes did not commence on the same day, so any comparator must be built per scheme. The interval at claim 6 must be handled explicitly, because a period with no stated validity sits between the two windows and may or may not have accepted submissions.

Why this grade

No grade is assigned. A comparison of rates cannot be made until submission dates are established for the predecessor periods, and any observed change would sit alongside office market conditions, construction costs and financing rates that no source held separates.

Neither the predecessor submission dates nor the treatment of the late 2024 to early 2025 interval has been established.

The case for

URA identified a specific problem and answered it with a specific instrument. The Anson and Cecil areas had three conversion options and none of them allowed a predominantly commercial outcome with a substantial residential or serviced apartment component, which the circular attributes to market trends and industry feedback. The new option supplies exactly that, and prices it in long-stay serviced apartments, which is the use most likely to add resident population to a district that empties in the evening. The schemes have a record to build on: 17 CBD Incentive and 12 Strategic Development Incentive proposals since 2019, most of the combined set granted in-principle support, and four projects in the Anson and Tanjong Pagar neighbourhood under construction on the day of the announcement. Extending a working instrument for five years and widening its use options is a defensible response to that record.

The case against

The announcement and the documents disagree about what happened, and the documents are the operative text. A five-year extension implies continuity; the predecessor window closed on 26 November 2024 and this one opened on 7 February 2025, and no source held says what happened to proposals in between. The circular also asserts a higher sustainability standard under Green Mark that the annexes do not contain: the tier written into the 2025 annexes is the tier written into the 2022 annex, and the actual rise happened in 2022. The substantive relaxation reaches two areas and one option, conditional on a serviced apartment requirement and on an office reduction test with no stated threshold. Against a run rate of roughly six proposals a year across both schemes since 2019, and with no published series on elections of any conversion option, the measure is small, narrowly targeted, and structurally difficult to evaluate.

What this view assumes

  • The maximum intensification for the new Anson and Cecil option is 25%, and the non-commercial quantum under it is 40%. They measure different things and are never combined.
  • The 200 Serviced Apartment II units are a floor under the second of two alternatives, not a universal requirement of the option.
  • Both five-year periods under the 2019 schemes ran from the Master Plan 2019 gazette, which is why two schemes with different commencement dates closed on the same day.
  • The Sustainability Statement is due at the Outline Application stage, per the two annexes, rather than at the development application stage, per paragraph 4a of the circular body.

What we don't know

  • The Master Plan 2019 gazette date, which no document held states in terms
  • What happened to proposals between 27 November 2024 and 6 February 2025
  • What the higher sustainability standards in circular paragraph 3 refer to
  • The threshold or measurement basis for a meaningful reduction in existing office space
  • Counts of Outline Applications under the revised schemes and how many elect the new option
  • The area boundary maps at Appendices 2-1 to 2-3, which fix the geographic scope of the new option

Prevo view

Interpretation

The framing and the instrument point in different directions, and the instrument is the smaller of the two. Read as an extension, this is a five-year continuation of a working rejuvenation programme. Read from the circulars, it is a reissue after a ten-week gap that adds one conversion option in two areas, attaches two conditions to it, and imposes one new documentation obligation across both schemes. The most consequential change is the one neither circular body mentions, because a reference base moving from a fixed 2019 plot ratio to the prevailing one changes achievable floor area on every site whose plot ratio has since been revised, while every percentage in the table stays where it was. That is a change worth more to some sites than the new conversion option, and it arrived without an announcement. The Green Mark discrepancy is best read as framing rather than as a parameter: the bar rose in 2022, and paragraph 3 appears to be describing a standing requirement rather than a new one.

Confidence: MEDIUM-HIGH

What would change this view: A count of Outline Applications submitted under the revised schemes, broken down by scheme and by elected conversion option, would settle whether the Anson and Cecil option answered real demand or restated a request nobody could finance. A URA reply or a parliamentary answer on the treatment of proposals between 27 November 2024 and 6 February 2025 would establish whether the gap was administrative or substantive, and would decide whether extension is the right word. Confirmation that the prevailing Master Plan gross plot ratio differs materially from the 2019 figure across the CBD Incentive areas would raise the reference base change from a technical observation to the principal effect of this event.

Evidence check

Policy facts verified29
  • Claim 1 The Minister for National Development announced that both schemes would be extended for another 5 years.[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Today, I would like to take this opportunity]
  • Claim 2 The maximum allowable intensification for the new Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial Uses option in the Anson and Cecil areas is 25%.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Table 3, Anson and Cecil rows, the row marked new]
  • Claim 3 Under the new Anson and Cecil option the development retains Commercial use with 40% of the quantum in non-commercial uses such as Residential.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Table 3, Anson and Cecil rows, the row marked new]
  • Claim 4 A proposal using the new Anson and Cecil option must either set aside the entire non-commercial quantum for Serviced Apartment II use or provide a minimum of 200 Serviced Apartment II units.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, footnote 1, repeated as footnote [a] to Table 3 of CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0]
  • Claim 5 The revised CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes take effect on 7 February 2025 and run to 6 February 2030.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, Effective Date field in the circular header]
  • Claim 6 The predecessor circular stated a validity period running from 4 April 2022 to 26 November 2024, which closed before the revised schemes opened on 7 February 2025.[Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, 4 April 2022, Effective Date field in the circular header, read against the Effective Date field of Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG]
  • Claim 7 A new land use conversion option, Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial Uses such as Residential, was added for the Anson and Cecil CBD Incentive areas.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, paragraph 6]
  • Claim 8 Where the 200-unit alternative is taken, the remaining non-commercial gross floor area may go to uses such as Hotel or Residential.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, footnote 1, second sentence]
  • Claim 9 Proposals under the Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial option must achieve a meaningful reduction in existing office space.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Table 3, footnote [b]]
  • Claim 10 In 2022 the Anson and Cecil areas carried only three conversion options from office use, Residential with Commercial at 1st storey at 30%, Hotel at 25% and Commercial and Residential at 25%.[Appendix 2, CBD Incentive Scheme, Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, Appendix 2-1 Anson area sheet, with the identical set repeated on the Appendix 2-2 Cecil Street sheet]
  • Claim 11 The Commercial with 40% Non-Commercial Uses option was already available at 25% in Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar and was not changed on 7 February 2025.[Appendix 2, CBD Incentive Scheme, Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, Appendix 2-3 Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar area sheet, read against Table 3 of CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 and Table 3 of Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG]
  • Claim 12 The reference base for maximum allowable intensification changed from the Master Plan 2019 gross plot ratio to the prevailing Master Plan gross plot ratio, in each case against the approved gross plot ratio whichever is higher.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, footnote 1 to Table 3, compared with the identically placed footnote 1 in Appendix 2 of Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG and with footnote 1 of Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG]
  • Claim 13 All proposals under both schemes must submit a Sustainability Statement at the Outline Application stage, considering the feasibility of retrofitting part or all of the existing buildings for adaptive reuse and outlining the trade-offs between different development scenarios.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, paragraph 4a, read against CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 paragraph 11 and SDI Scheme 2.0 paragraph 10]
  • Claim 14 Following its assessment of the Sustainability Statement, URA may require an applicant to submit a carbon optioneering assessment weighing the trade-offs of different development scenarios as part of the formal submission for planning approval.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, paragraph 4b]
  • Claim 15 Meaningful retrofit and adaptive reuse proposals may be considered as positive public contributions under the revised Strategic Development Incentive scheme, and retrofit and adaptive re-use was added to that scheme's evaluation criteria.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, paragraph 5, with SDI Scheme 2.0 paragraph 8b marking the corresponding evaluation criterion as new, read against the bundled item in Appendix 1 of Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG and in Circular URA/PB/2019/03-CUDG]
  • Claim 16 The photovoltaic wording changed from projects, where applicable, may be expected to deploy photovoltaics, to projects will be expected to deploy photovoltaics.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, paragraph 15, compared with Appendix 2 of Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, paragraph 9d, with the identical change at SDI Scheme 2.0 paragraph 23]
  • Claim 17 The circular states that proposals are required to achieve higher sustainability standards under the Green Mark framework, while the Green Mark standard written into the 2025 annexes, minimum Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy with Maintainability and Whole Life Carbon badges, is the standard already written into the 2022 annex.[Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, 7 February 2025, paragraph 3, read against CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 paragraph 15, Appendix 2 of Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG paragraph 9d, and Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG paragraph 10d]
  • Claim 18 Any increase in development intensity approved under either scheme is subject to payment of Land Betterment Charge where applicable, replacing the earlier reference to development charge or differential premium.[CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, paragraph 12, compared with Appendix 2 of Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, paragraph 9a]
  • Claim 19 As at 7 February 2025 the CBD Incentive Scheme had received 17 proposals. The minister said that most of the combined 17 CBD Incentive and 12 Strategic Development Incentive proposals had been granted in-principle approval.[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
  • Claim 20 As at 7 February 2025 the Strategic Development Incentive Scheme had received 12 proposals. The minister said that most of the combined 17 CBD Incentive and 12 Strategic Development Incentive proposals had been granted in-principle approval.[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
  • Claim 21 Four CBD Incentive projects in the Anson and Tanjong Pagar neighbourhood were under construction on 7 February 2025, being Newport Plaza, The Skywaters, 15 Hoe Chiang Road and 51 Anson Road, and were expected to deliver more than 1,000 new homes on completion along with hotels, shops and eateries.[Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025, 7 February 2025, paragraph beginning Two important policies]
  • Claim 22 The Strategic Development Incentive Scheme took effect on 27 March 2019, but its five-year period ran from the date of gazette of Master Plan 2019 rather than from its own commencement.[Circular URA/PB/2019/03-CUDG, 27 March 2019, paragraph 19]
  • Claim 23 Eligibility under both schemes requires the existing development to be at least 20 years old from the date of last Temporary Occupation Permit.[Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0, Table 1, Age of Development row, with the same threshold in CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 Table 1]
  • Claim 24 The CBD Incentive Scheme took effect from the date of gazette of Master Plan 2019 and ran for five years from that date, having been used only as guidance for Outline Applications received before the gazette.[Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG, 27 March 2019, paragraph 17, with paragraph 18 on pre-gazette guidance]
  • Claim 25 The Strategic Development Incentive eligibility criteria in the 2025 annex, being an age of at least 20 years from last Temporary Occupation Permit, commercial or predominantly commercial mixed use, and a minimum of two adjacent sites, are the same criteria stated in the 2019 founding circular.[Circular URA/PB/2019/03-CUDG, 27 March 2019, Table 1, Transformational Impact row, compared with Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0, Table 1]
  • Claim 26 Master Plan 2019 was gazetted on 27 November 2019.[Circular URA/PB/2019/20-PPG, 27 November 2019, paragraph 1]
  • Claim 27 Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, issued on 7 February 2025 with the same validity period as the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive scheme revision, allows surplus car parking spaces in designated CBD Incentive Scheme areas to be converted only to non-office uses. Separately, it provides island-wide that additional gross floor area obtained through the conversion of surplus car parking spaces is excluded when determining the maximum permissible intensity upon redevelopment.[Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, 7 February 2025, Effective Date field; CBD Incentive Scheme section, paragraph 3 and Table 1; and Additional GFA section, paragraph 5]
  • Claim 28 The cut-off for exempting development applications already granted Written Permission from the additional-GFA treatment in paragraph 5 moved from before 3 August 2020 to before 7 February 2025.[Footnote 2 to paragraph 5 of Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, compared with footnote 2 to paragraph 5 of Circular URA/PB/2020/06-CUDG]
  • Claim 29 The 2020 circular stated that the list of allowable non-office uses was not exhaustive and that allowable uses could vary by site and should not be cited as a precedent for other sites. The 2025 circular does not reproduce that sentence.[Table 1 of Circular URA/PB/2020/06-CUDG, compared with Table 1 of Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG]
Causally established outcomes
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