Developing Gillman Barracks and Sunset Way: Don’t mourn losing some green spaces
Continued urban transformation may expand housing and amenity supply, while potentially affecting existing residents through lost views, reduced green space and neighbourhood redevelopment.
Singapore continues developing and redeveloping land, including green spaces and familiar buildings, to meet residents’ evolving “live, work and play” needs.
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[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.