Talks Held to Integrate Plans for Joo Chiat, East Coast: Edwin Tong

Emphasis will be on minimising disruption to residents, ensuring programmes go on

- Goh Yan Han

With his Joo Chiat ward being drawn into East Coast GRC, Mr Edwin Tong has been in talks with the constituency's MPs on how to integrate existing plans.

The Minister for Culture, Community and Youth said there is a lot of synergy between work done under the East Coast Plan and what his team has been doing in Joo Chiat.

The emphasis will be on minimising disruption to residents, while ensuring that programmes that have been promised or have started will continue, he added.

Addressing the media on March 23, during a three-hour-long walkabout at the food centre at Block 16 Bedok South Road, Mr Tong said: "For one thing, the food on both sides of the border is equally good, so we are looking to use that to enhance the offerings for residents."