Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are planned for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that will yield about 6,000 brand-new apartments upon finish. This is 1,000 greater than the 5,000 units formerly announced for the 33ha site, HDB claims in a Sept 2 announcement.
Lee Sze Teck, higher supervisor of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, believes the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw strong interest, due to its area close to Mount Pleasant MRT Station and schools like CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
According to HDB, the increased supply adheres to “more detailed planning researches” and will guide to meet strong real estate demand.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into demand and prices. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat costs in Toa Payoh are quite high and the mature estate has one of the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale flats,” Lee adds. Prime lodgings are subject to tighter rules, such as a 10-year minimum occupation duration and a subsidy clawback.
Six buildings, which HDB says were “identified as the most considerable depictions of authorities heritage”, have actually been saved and will definitely be incorporated into the new estate. 4 blocks are going to be repurposed for alternative purposes including a neighbourhood police post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block is going to continue to function as the Senior Police Officers’ Mess, while another will be integrated into future projects. Furthermore, the previous OPA parade square will be maintained as public space for community use.
HDB claims the “white flat” layout will be given at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat buyers can opt for the open-concept layout, that provides an adjoining living and bedroom room without separation surfaces, when they are welcomed to reserve a flat.
Eugene Lim, key director at ERA Singapore, indicates that the white flat layout at Mount Pleasant Crest may attract more youthful Singaporeans and property owners meaning to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly provide the choice to customise their design to accommodate their housing needs, permitting flexibility over the longer term,” he claims.
The Mount Pleasant estate rests on the site of the Old Police Academy (OPA), close to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was run as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) up until 2005.
This will be the second BTO project to offer the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, which launched last October. According to HDB, around four in 10 flat customers opted for the design at that project.
Presented by the brand-new Mount Pleasant MRT Station on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant are going to be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, larger foot tracks and cycling pathways. New roads, consisting of a main highway named “Old Police Academy Roadway”, will even be constructed to boost ease of access. There will additionally be a sheltered pedestrian road that attaches the various precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB mentions.
The first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be opened as section of the October 2025 BTO activity. Called Mount Pleasant Crest, it is going to offer around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There will even be 270 units of public rental condos.
