# Developing Gillman Barracks and Sunset Way: Don’t mourn losing some green spaces

- **Source:** The Business Times
- **Published:** 2026-08-31T04:16:05.000Z
- **Author:** Leslie Yee
- **Original:** https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/developing-gillman-barracks-and-sunset-way-dont-mourn-losing-some-green-spaces
- **Topics:** Private Residential, Sustainability & PropTech

## Featured rationale

Continued urban transformation may expand housing and amenity supply, while potentially affecting existing residents through lost views, reduced green space and neighbourhood redevelopment.

## AI summary

Singapore continues developing and redeveloping land, including green spaces and familiar buildings, to meet residents’ evolving “live, work and play” needs.

## Original article

[SINGAPORE] Losing an unblocked view because a new block of flats is being built in front of one’s apartment. Having a favourite space taken away to make room for new flats; or, seeing a building, which one has nostalgic memories of, undergo redevelopment. What about losing a chunk of scarce forest for property development?

Unfortunately, all these are very much part of life for many Singapore residents.

Since independence, Singapore has been a city in constant transformation. Islandwide, spaces are being developed and redeveloped to meet changing “live, work and play” needs.

## Chinese translation

> Translation model: grok_cli

### 开发吉尔曼军营与日落路：不必为失去部分绿地而哀叹

新加坡必须持续转型，以满足不断变化的“生活、工作与休闲”需求

［新加坡］眼前因正在兴建新的公寓楼而失去开阔视野。心爱的空间被腾出以兴建新公寓；或者，看着一栋承载怀旧记忆的建筑经历重建。又或者，为了房地产开发而失去一块本已稀缺的林地？

遗憾的是，对许多新加坡居民而言，这些都是生活的一部分。

自独立以来，新加坡一直是一座持续转型的城市。全岛各地的空间正被开发与重建，以满足不断变化的“生活、工作与休闲”需求。