Policy before and after · Planning
Singapore reissues the CBD Incentive and Strategic Development Incentive schemes to 2030 and adds a conditional commercial conversion option in Anson and Cecil
Announced 7 February 2025 · Effective 7 February 2025
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Comparison anchored to effective date: 7 February 2025. Before: 8 January 2025 to 6 February 2025. After: 7 February 2025 to 8 March 2025. The same 30 days on each side; the anchor day counts as after.
Before · 8 Jan 2025 to 6 Feb 2025
2 land-sales awards
- 4 land-sales steps in all
- 0 other archive events
The event
Announced 7 Feb 2025
Effective 7 Feb 2025
The effective date is the anchor.
After · 7 Feb 2025 to 8 Mar 2025
1 land-sales award
- 3 land-sales steps in all
- All 30 days observable
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- 10 policy parameters recorded with a before and an after value on this event.
- 2 land-sales awards in the 30 days before the effective date, and 1 in the 30 observable days after.
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About this eventIssuing authority, category, affected market, primary source, summary
- Announced
- 7 February 2025
- Effective
- 7 February 2025
- Issuing authority
- Ministry of National Development, Urban Redevelopment Authority
- Category
- Planning
- Affected market
- 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.
- Primary source
- Appendix 1-2 to Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, boundary map of the Cecil Street CBD Incentive area
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. The revision adds one land use conversion option, Commercial with 40% non-commercial uses such as Residential, in the Anson and Cecil areas, conditional on long-stay Serviced Apartment II provision and on a meaningful reduction in existing office space. It requires a Sustainability Statement from every applicant under both schemes at the Outline Application stage. The Minister for National Development described the reissue as extending both schemes for another five years, although the predecessor circular states a validity period that closed on 26 November 2024.
In brief
In brief
- 2 GLS site awards were recorded in the before window and 1 in the after window.
What changed
| Policy parameter | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Residential with Commercial at 1st storey | 30% | 30% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Commercial and Residential | 25% | 25% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Hotel | 25% | 25% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Anson and Cecil Street, Commercial with 40% non-commercial uses | Unknown | 25% | Not stated |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, Commercial with 40% non-commercial uses | 25% | 25% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, Commercial and Residential | 25% | 25% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_INTENSIFICATION_CAP · Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar, Hotel | 25% | 25% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_SDI_EV_PASSIVE_PROVISION · All cases | 15% | 15% | Unchanged |
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| CBDI_SDI_EV_ACTIVE_PROVISION · All cases | 1% | 1% | Unchanged |
| CBDI_PARKING_UNIT_SIZE_THRESHOLD · All cases | 100 sqm | 100 sqm | Unchanged |
Where these values come from
- Source
- Recorded on this event's policy matrix in Prevo's archive. The event's primary source: Appendix 1-2 to Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, boundary map of the Cecil Street CBD Incentive area.
- Primary source published
- 7 February 2025
- Validity
- In force from the event's effective date, 7 February 2025. 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
4 lines
4 land-sales steps (2 awards) · 0 archive events
From the effective date
4 lines
3 land-sales steps (1 award) · 1 archive event
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Before (4)
14 January 2025 · Land sales
Dairy Farm Walk (21,881.8 sqm parcel): Tender closedResidential · status on 14 January 2025: Tender closed, award pending
14 January 2025 · Land sales
Tengah Garden Avenue: Tender closedResidential with commercial at 1st storey · status on 14 January 2025: Tender closed, award pending
21 January 2025 · Land sales
Dairy Farm Walk (21,881.8 sqm parcel): AwardedResidential · status on 21 January 2025: Awarded · awarded to SNC2 Realty Pte. Ltd., Apex Asia Alpha Investment Two Pte. Ltd., Soon Li Heng Civil Engineering Pte Ltd and Kay Lim Realty Pte. Ltd. at S$504,515,000
21 January 2025 · Land sales
Tengah Garden Avenue: AwardedResidential with commercial at 1st storey · status on 21 January 2025: Awarded · awarded to Intrepid Investments Pte. Ltd., CSC Land Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and GuocoLand (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. at S$675,000,000
After (4)
7 February 2025 · Land sales
River Valley Green (Parcel B): Tender closedResidential with commercial at 1st storey, including long-stay serviced apartments · status on 7 February 2025: Tender closed, award pending
13 February 2025 · Land sales
River Valley Green (Parcel B): AwardedResidential with commercial at 1st storey, including long-stay serviced apartments · status on 13 February 2025: Awarded · awarded to GLL B Pte. Ltd. at S$627,835,896
4 March 2025 · Land sales
Media Circle (Parcel A): Tender closedResidential with commercial at 1st storey · status on 4 March 2025: Tender closed, award pending
5 March 2025 · Archive event
Singapore extends developer ABSD remission timelines for complex projects and the CORENET X qualifying periodAnnounced 5 March 2025
Methodology5 rules
- Comparison anchored to effective date: 7 February 2025. 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 (15)
Primary sources15
Appendix 1-2 to Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, boundary map of the Cecil Street CBD Incentive area
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Appendix 1-1 to Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, boundary map of the Anson CBD Incentive area
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Appendix 1-3 to Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, boundary map of the Robinson Road, Shenton Way and Tanjong Pagar CBD Incentive area
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Circular URA/PB/2025/03-CUDG, Clarification on Conversion of Surplus Car Parking Spaces
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0, annex to Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Circular URA/PB/2025/02-CUDG, Revisions to Rejuvenation Incentive Schemes for Strategic Areas: CBD Incentive Scheme 2.0 and Strategic Development Incentive Scheme 2.0
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Speech by Minister Desmond Lee at REDAS Spring Festival Lunch 2025
Ministry of National Development · Primary source · Published 7 February 2025
Appendix 1, Strategic Development Incentive Scheme, annex to Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 4 April 2022
Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG, Update to Rejuvenation Incentive Schemes for Strategic Areas
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 4 April 2022
Appendix 2, CBD Incentive Scheme, annex to Circular URA/PB/2022/03-CUDG
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 4 April 2022
Circular URA/PB/2020/06-CUDG, Clarification on Conversion of Surplus Car Parking Spaces
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 3 August 2020
Circular URA/PB/2019/20-PPG, Gazette of Master Plan 2019
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 November 2019
Circular URA/PB/2019/03-CUDG, Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas: Strategic Development Incentive Scheme
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019
Circular URA/PB/2019/04-CUDG, Rejuvenation Incentives for Strategic Areas: CBD Incentive Scheme
Urban Redevelopment Authority · Primary source · Published 27 March 2019
Event checked against its primary sources on 25 August 2026. Each claim keeps its own verification status.
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