Private home owners to enjoy enhanced upgrading at estates soon

Private home owners to enjoy enhanced upgrading at estates soon
By Foo Siew Shyan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 25 August 2007 1905 hrs


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Private home owners to enjoy enhanced upgrading at estates soon







SINGAPORE: The Estate Upgrading Committee, which currently manages projects in selected private estates, will be revamped to oversee and coordinate all major upgrading works across different agencies in private housing estates.

This will help tackle the problem of lack of coordination, which is often raised by private home dwellers in feedback sessions.

The committee, chaired by Parliamentary Secretary for National Development Dr Maliki Osman, will also be reconstituted to comprise senior representatives from public agencies such as National Parks Board and the Land Transport Authority.

Private estates will also have access to the Community Improvement Project Committee (CIPC) funds soon.

The funds, currently restricted to HDB estates, will allow minor and ad-hoc upgrading works outside the major upgrading windows.

A pilot programme in three GRCs will be initiated. Citizens’ Consultative Committees in Aljunied, Holland-Bukit Timah and Tanjong Pagar will soon have more resources to act on behalf of their private estate residents, and to coordinate with government agencies on maintenance matters.

These measures were announced by the Committee on Private Estates and the National Development Ministry on Saturday.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had also spoken about some of these measures in his National Day Rally speech last Sunday. - CNA/ac