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48-531: Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving Bukit Panjang New Town , Singapore , located within Hillion Mall. It is diagonally opposite Bukit Panjang Plaza and adjacent to Bukit Panjang station on the Downtown MRT and Bukit Panjang LRT lines. The Zhenghua Bus Terminal was initially set up for the development of Zhenghua New Town (today known as Bukit Panjang) in 1986. A year later,

96-470: A chairman and 11 other members, along with three departments, the Building, Estate and Corporate departments, under the purview of a chief executive officer, who is a member of the board. Each department is further subdivided into different groups. The Research and Planning, Development and Procurement, Building Quality and Building and Infrastructure groups and the Building and Research Institute are under

144-522: A new signalling system, better condition monitoring, new power rails system and 19 new light rail vehicles. The public bus system is predominantly run by SMRT Buses . Of the SMRT buses based in Bukit Panjang, some are smaller feeder bus services that serve the various areas of the neighbourhood, while the rest are long-distance trunk services that serve as a mode of transport to other towns and to

192-539: A new subsidiary, HDB Corp. The HDB increased efforts to engage residents in its provision of public housing in the 2000s. These efforts included public consultation schemes and the Neighbourhood Renewal Programme , in which facilities within multiple adjacent precincts were improved or upgraded, and residents were able to provide feedback on the planned improvements. Efforts to foster more extensive resident participation were made in 2013 with

240-546: Is a planning area and residential town located in the West Region of Singapore . A portion of this town is situated on a low-lying elongated hill. The planning area is bounded by Bukit Batok to the west, Choa Chu Kang to the northwest, Sungei Kadut to the north, the Central Water Catchment to the east, and Bukit Timah to the south. Bukit Panjang New Town is located at the northern portion of

288-785: Is part of the Bukit Panjang Integrated Transport Hub, which shares the building with the Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange , and directly links to the Bukit Panjang MRT/LRT station through an underpass and above-ground link way respectively. There are other smaller commercial buildings equipped with food courts, supermarkets, and other basic shops to meet the basic necessities of the residents. They are commonly located within HDB estates or small standalone buildings. Some of

336-530: The Bukit Panjang MRT station . The new Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange, located within Hillion Mall , was eventually opened on 4 September 2017 as part of the new Bukit Panjang Integrated Transport Hub. The temporary bus park continued to serve 4 services: 75, 184, 700 & 700A. The remaining services were rerouted back to the new interchange with the exception of Bus 180, which only began serving

384-739: The Bukit Panjang Ring Road . It acts as a feeder to the main arterial roads in the town. There is a total of 8.5 km-worth of cycling paths around Bukit Panjang to facilitate active mobility as part of the Land Transport Authority's Walk-Cycle-Ride initiative. The first batch of cycling paths was constructed along Petir Road in 2018 by the Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council. The network has since expanded to cover areas such as Fajar, Bangkit, Jelapang, and Senja. Together with

432-593: The Design, Build and Sell Scheme , in which the flats were developed and sold by private developers. Nevertheless, the HDB was unable to adapt to the changes in Singapore's housing market fast enough in the early 2000s. To determine and redefine its position in the housing market, the HDB was reorganised, transferring the provision of flat loans to private banks, and corporatising its Building and Development Division to form

480-520: The Downtown Core : It is also served by the following LRT Stations which connect it to nearby Choa Chu Kang for commuters to access the North–South MRT line : The driverless and fully automated Bukit Panjang LRT line was completed on 11 June 1999 at a cost of S$ 285 million. The rail line was intended to serve the growing town and act as a replacement to the many buses employed through

528-691: The Housing Board ), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore . Established in 1960 as a result of efforts in the late 1950s to set up an authority to take over the Singapore Improvement Trust 's (SIT) public housing responsibilities, the HDB focused on the construction of emergency housing and the resettlement of kampong residents into public housing in

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576-405: The Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), which was then responsible for public housing in Singapore, faced many problems in providing public housing, with the rents for flats being too low to be financially sustainable but unaffordable for many of the poorer people in Singapore. Delays in approval for new housing developments greatly slowed housing construction by 1958. In the mid-1950s, in light of

624-436: The 1980s, most flat applicants were opting to purchase them. From the late 1960s onwards, the HDB designed flats and estates with improved amenities and fittings to improve the quality of life. To further these efforts, in the 1970s and 1980s, the HDB introduced residents committees in its housing estates to promote community cohesion, loosened regulations on flat modifications, and engaged in upgrading works. These works included

672-462: The 1990s. These included the Design and Build and Design Plus schemes, with flats designed in collaboration with private architects and built to a higher standard than other flats, and executive condominiums, with amenities similar to private housing. Further schemes were introduced in the 2000s, such as Build-to-Order, in which construction of flats began only after applicants had applied for them, and

720-704: The Building Our Neighbourhood Dreams! project, in which residents could propose neighbourhood improvements instead of just providing feedback, but the initial projects were not well received. The HDB began installation of solar panels on public housing blocks and in its properties in the 2010s. In 2014, together with the Economic Development Board , it initiated the SolarNova programme to handle solar panel installation on government properties and buildings. Under

768-680: The Building department; the Estate Administration and Property, Housing Management, Community Relations and Properties and Land groups under the Estate department; and the Corporate Development, Corporate Communications, Finance, Information Services and Legal groups under the Corporate department. The HDB also controls 75% of EM Services, a company handling the upkeep of the HDB's housing estates and properties, and

816-615: The Bukit Ho Swee estate marked the beginning of the HDB's resettlement efforts, and kampong dwellers were swiftly rehoused in public housing. By 1965, 54,430 flats had been built, with an increasing proportion of the population living in HDB dwellings. The rehousing of kampong dwellers allowed the HDB to pursue its redevelopment plans for the Central Area, and the Urban Renewal Department was formed within

864-528: The Ethnic Integration Policy, which capped the racial proportions of residents in HDB estates, was introduced in 1989. The HDB began offering flats for purchase in 1964, but as many flat dwellers at the time could not afford to do so, it was initially not very successful. Applicants could use their Central Provident Fund (CPF) contributions to pay for their flats beginning in 1968. The take-up rate for flat purchases increased such that by

912-510: The HDB in 1966 to manage the redevelopment works. This department also handled the construction of new amenities in the Central Area and collaborated with private enterprises in constructing new buildings on cleared sites. However, by the 1970s, the urban renewal projects proved too large for the department to handle alone, so the Urban Redevelopment Authority , a statutory board, replaced the department in 1974. With

960-475: The HDB initiated a redevelopment programme, the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) in 1995, in which selected housing blocks were razed and their residents compensated. SERS carried out renewal schemes in town centres in several older estates in the late 1990s. There have been a total of 81 SERS sites as of 2018. Along with the upgrading schemes, the HDB introduced several new housing schemes in

1008-520: The HDB stopped building HUDC flats in 1985. In a bid to encourage younger people to continue living in older public housing estates, the HDB announced a large-scale upgrading scheme for those estates in 1989. Known as the Main Upgrading Programme , it attempted to improve these estates by adding new facilities to these estates, improved fittings in flats and varying the looks of the housing blocks in different precincts. In addition,

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1056-708: The Housing & Development Board (HDB)'s formation, it announced plans to build over 50,000 flats, mostly in the city, under a five-year scheme, and found ways to build flats as cheaply as possible so that the poor could afford to stay in them. The HDB also continued the SIT's efforts in building emergency flats in Tiong Bahru , which were mostly used to rehouse people displaced by the Bukit Ho Swee fire in May 1961. After

1104-405: The Housing and Development Act, the HDB is tasked to plan and carry out the construction or upgrading of any building, clear slums, manage and maintain the estates and buildings that it owns, and to provide loans to people to buy land or public housing. The HDB also carries out land reclamation works and handles the infrastructure for Singapore's national resource stockpiles. The HDB consists of

1152-500: The ITH in 2018, and 971E, which remained to terminate at a pair of bus stops near Bukit Panjang MRT/LRT station . Service 971E was later renumbered to Service 971 in 2020, then withdrawn in 2022. In 2020, Services 700 & 700A were withdrawn, while 75 & 184 were rerouted to the newly opened Gali Batu Bus Terminal in 2021, following which the temporary bus park was then shut down. Under the new bus contracting model , all bus services at

1200-791: The Pang Sua Park Connector, Bukit Panjang Park Connector, and Bukit Panjang (Woodlands Road to KJE) Park Connector, the cycling paths form the backbone of the town's 16 km cycling network. Bukit Panjang is politically divided into two constituencies, namely the Bukit Panjang Single Member Constituency and the Cashew and Zhenghua wards of the Holland-Bukit Timah Group Representation Constituency . Bukit Panjang SMC mainly consists of

1248-590: The Pending, Bangkit and Fajar areas. Its Member of Parliament is Liang Eng Hwa . Senja, Segar, and Jelapang are located in Zhenghua ward of Holland-Bukit Timah GRC where its Member of Parliament is Edward Chia . Petir, Gangsa, and Chestnut areas belong to the Cashew division of Holland-Bukit Timah GRC with its Member of Parliament being Vivian Balakrishnan . Housing and Development Board The Housing & Development Board ( HDB ; often referred to as

1296-520: The administrative lead of the Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council, which oversees the management and maintenance of the many apartments (HDB flats) and commercial units in Bukit Panjang. Its Member of Parliament is Liang Eng Hwa since the 2020 general election . The town consists of a mixture of old and new blocks of flats, condominiums and private housing. To date, there are three community centres , namely Bukit Panjang Community Club, Zhenghua Community Club, and Senja-Cashew Community Club, which serve

1344-417: The area. Bukit Panjang is a suburban town in western Singapore. Before redevelopment, Kampong Bukit Panjang used to exist in the area. Initially, instead of using the original place name, Bukit Panjang, there were plans to open up the new town using the name, Zhenghua, derived from Jalan Cheng Hwa that used to ply the area . However, Bukit Panjang was quickly reinstated following complaints. Development of

1392-505: The building. The mall is owned by CapitaRetail which is another retail-based REIT by CapitaLand . The mall houses the Bukit Panjang Public Library as well as a NTUC FairPrice Finest supermarket. Hillion Mall is another well-known mall in Bukit Panjang, located along Petir Road. It is one of the more recent commercial facilities, which completed construction and was opened to the public on 24 February 2017. It

1440-550: The city centre. Bus services start and end at Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange . Bukit Panjang is bounded by two of Singapore's expressways — the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) and Kranji Expressway (KJE). The BKE is accessible via Bukit Panjang Road and Dairy Farm Road, while the KJE is accessible via Woodlands Road and Senja Road. Bukit Panjang also has a ring road running through the various parts of Bukit Panjang,

1488-459: The construction of the Bukit Ho Swee estate, the HDB also sought to change how estate residents behaved, and to give the state greater control over their lives. Moreover, with the new housing estates not segregated by race, the HDB facilitated the formation of multiracial communities in place of racially divided ones. Nevertheless, by the 1980s, racial divisions within HDB estates became increasingly pronounced, so to mitigate possible ethnic tensions,

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1536-477: The eastern part of Bukit Panjang, consists of a fitness area, gazebos , playgrounds , and a 2.5-kilometre cycling and jogging track that runs parallel to the Bukit Timah Expressway . Bukit Panjang has both primary and secondary schools within the neighbourhood, as well as other private institutions. Bukit Panjang is served by the following MRT Stations on the Downtown MRT line which opened on 27 December 2015 and provide residents with direct train access to

1584-403: The entertainment, recreational, and educational needs of residents. Bukit Panjang Plaza is one of the well-known malls in Bukit Panjang. It is located in the heart of Bukit Panjang town and is near Bukit Panjang LRT station , Bukit Panjang MRT station , and Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange . Located on Jelebu Road, the mall has been expanded twice throughout its existence to include more shops in

1632-569: The expansion of old one-room flats and the construction of new amenities in older estates. In addition, the HDB started soliciting feedback from residents through the Sample Household Surveys (SHS) from 1975. In 1982, control over the Housing and Urban Development Company (HUDC) was transferred to the HDB. With the prices of HUDC flats approaching those of private housing, and the middle class being able to purchase HDB flats,

1680-587: The findings of the Committee on Local Government, the government initiated efforts to set up a new housing authority in place of the SIT. These efforts culminated in the Housing and Development Bill, which was read to the Legislative Assembly in 1958 and passed the next year. With the bill's passing, the HDB was formed in February 1960, taking over the SIT's public housing responsibilities. On

1728-427: The fire, the HDB focused its efforts on Bukit Ho Swee 's redevelopment, rapidly designing and constructing a public housing estate on the fire's site, with people displaced by urban renewal projects and kampong fires rehoused in the estate's flats. Their occupants disliked the one-room emergency flats, so by the mid-1960s, the HDB had moved on to building larger flats, especially around the Central Area. Nevertheless,

1776-496: The first few years of its existence. This focus shifted from the late 1960s, with the HDB building flats with improved fittings and offering them for sale. From the 1970s, it initiated efforts to improve community cohesion in its estates and solicit resident feedback. In the 1990s and 2000s, the HDB introduced upgrading and redevelopment schemes for mature estates, as well as new types of housing intended to cater to different income groups in partnership with private developers. The HDB

1824-564: The infrastructure of Singapore's national resource stockpiles. The HDB is also a major purchaser of state land from the Government with the purchase price payable by HDB going into the past reserves . By the 1940s and 1950s, Singapore experienced rapid population growth, with the population increasing to 1.7 million from 940,700 between 1947 and 1957. The living conditions of people in Singapore worsened, with many people living in informal settlements or cramped shophouses . Moreover,

1872-501: The interchange are under Choa Chu Kang-Bukit Panjang Bus Package. Currently, all bus services at the interchange are operated by the anchor operator, SMRT Buses . Service 180 does not terminate at Bukit Panjang Interchange. Instead, 180 loops within the interchange back to Boon Lay Bus Interchange . This Singapore bus-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bukit Panjang New Town Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Bukit Panjang

1920-671: The latter opened in 2022. A healthcare facility located along Senja Road was opened on 2 October 2021 to house the Bukit Panjang Polyclinic and the Senja Care Home. The town has two major parks, namely Bukit Panjang Neighbourhood 5 Park and Zhenghua Park . Bukit Panjang Neighbourhood 5 Park is located adjacent to the Senja-Cashew Community Club and wraps around Pang Sua Pond , a man-made floating wetland. Zhenghua Park , located in

1968-662: The more iconic buildings include Junction 10 located along Woodlands Road, Fajar Shopping Centre located along Fajar Road, Greenridge Shopping Centre located along Jelapang Road, and the Bukit Panjang Neighbourhood Centre located along Bangkit Road. Within the neighbourhood consists of two hawker centres ; the Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market and the Senja Hawker Centre. The former opened in 2015 while

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2016-508: The planning area. Bukit Panjang has an average elevation of 36m/118 ft. The town is categorised into seven subzones, namely Jelebu, Bangkit, Fajar, Saujana, Senja, Dairy Farm, and Nature Reserve. Bukit Panjang means "long hill" in Malay . It gets its name from the low hills which end south to Bukit Timah . The roads in the town are named after old 60s kampung tracks (Lorong Petir, Lorong Pending, Jalan Fajar, Jalan Senja) which used to ply

2064-490: The previous bus system that covered most parts of the Bukit Panjang neighbourhoods such as bus service 190 and 972. The previous bus system was viewed as more efficient because it had many bus stops within walking distance; the LRT system has only 13 stations that are spaced hundreds of meters apart. The LRT system is expected to go through a major upgrading programme that is due to be completed by 2026. The programme will bring about

2112-492: The terminal was moved to Petir Road, when it was also renamed Bukit Panjang Bus Terminal. On 26 December 1999, the Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange, located at Jelebu Road and Petir Road, was first opened to the public, which would take over the routes that were served by the older bus terminal. In order to make way for the development of the Bukit Panjang Integrated Transport Hub (ITH), the interchange

2160-455: The town and advanced earthworks begun on 15 June 1981. Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats rose up by 20 May 1985, but only Blocks 1xx and 2xx were built so far. Neighbourhood 4 was up and running by 1989, and followed by Neighbourhood 5 and 6 which was the recent ones since 1995. In 1981, S$ 96 million was spent on widening canals to help prevent flooding in low-lying areas such as Bukit Panjang. The Bukit Panjang area comes under

2208-421: The town, especially during rush hours. Originally opening with 14 stations, Ten Mile Junction station permanently closed in 2019 after sighting low ridership, bringing the number to 13. Several petitions were presented by the residents of Bukit Panjang protesting the decision by SMRT to replace the buses in Bukit Panjang with the LRT system. Some of the complaints were related to the fact that people preferred

2256-402: Was planned to be closed for two years from 16 December 2012 until 2015 when the new ITH would be ready, and buses were rerouted to a temporary bus park, with the exception of Services 177 & 180, which were amended to loop around Bukit Panjang LRT instead. The opening of this new interchange was delayed by two years due to difficulties faced during construction to fully integrate the ITH with

2304-458: Was reorganised in 2003 to better suit Singapore's housing market in the 2000s. Efforts to engage residents with upgrading schemes increased in the 2000s and 2010s, and the HDB also began solar panel installation works from the early 2010s. The HDB consists of a 12-member board and three departments, the Building, Estate and Corporate departments. Besides the provision of public housing, the HDB handles land reclamation works in Singapore and maintains

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