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The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for the conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. [2] More than 7000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings.
Urban planning in Singapore is the direction of infrastructure development in Singapore. It is done through a three-tiered planning framework, consisting of a long-term plan to plot out Singapore's development over at least 50 years, a Master Plan for the medium term, and short-term plans, the first two of which are prepared by the Urban ...
The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Government of Singapore.It was established on 1 April 1999 through the merger of the Construction Industry Development Board and the Building Control Division of the former Public Works Department.
A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing detailed planning guidelines for every plot of land throughout the country. [ 2 ] The planning areas were first introduced in the early 1990s after the release of the 1991 Concept Plan. [ 5 ]
MND's key responsibilities include the planning, management and redevelopment of land resources and the development of public housing.The promotion of the construction, real estate and agrotechnology industries, as well as the management and improvement of industry standards in the real estate agent industry also come under the purview of the ministry.
The MSO currently work with 10 government agencies [9] [4] to better facilitate and improve inter-agency coordination in municipal matters. These are: Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Housing and Development Board (HDB) Land Transport Authority (LTA) National Environment Agency (NEA) National Parks Board (NParks) People's Association (PA)