New Sembawang North, Woodlands North housing areas to yield 14,000 homes

Some 14,000 homes will be built on two new sites in Sembawang and Woodlands by 2035 as the Government ramps up housing supply in northern Singapore.

- Wong Yang

These two sites - in Sembawang North and Woodlands North - will have their first Housing Board Build-To-Order (BTO) projects launched there in 2025, Minister for National Development Desmond Lee announced on Oct 22.

Mr Lee said these plans build on efforts to "provide a sizeable supply of affordable new homes in the north", and come after an announcement earlier in 2024 to develop the new Chencharu housing area in Yishun.

The first new estate, Sembawang North, will offer 8,000 BTO flats and 2,000 private homes. The second, Woodlands North Coast, will have about 4,000 new flats.

Both housing areas will come before Tuas by 2024.

Before Sembawang New Town was developed in the mid-1990s, Sembawang housed the British Naval Base in the 1920s, which later became Sembawang Shipyard.

The new housing projects in Sembawang North will draw on the area's maritime heritage, and will reflect naval themes and colonial architecture.