Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
Presented by the new Mount Pleasant MRT Stop on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant will be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, larger foot paths and biking pathways. New roadways, consisting of a major thoroughfare named “Old Police Academy Road”, will also be constructed to improve accessibility. There will even be a protected pedestrian road that connects the numerous precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB shares.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are planned for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that will produce approximately 6,000 new condos upon completion. This is 1,000 more than the 5,000 units formerly revealed for the 33ha site, HDB states in a Sept 2 press release.
HDB says the “white flat” layout will be given at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat clients can select the open-concept layout, which provides an adjoining living and bedroom room without separation wall structures, when they are invited to reserve a flat.
According to HDB, the expanded supply complies with “further detailed planning researches” and will assist to match good housing necessity.
Six structures, which HDB says were “recognized as the most considerable representations of cops heritage”, have actually been saved and will be incorporated right into the brand-new estate. 4 blocks will be repurposed for alternative usages such as a neighbourhood authorities post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block is going to continue to act as the Senior Policeman’ Mess, whilst another will be incorporated into future developments. Furthermore, the former OPA parade square will be retained as public space for community use.
The first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be opened as section of the October 2025 BTO exercise. Labelled Mount Pleasant Crest, it is going to give around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There are going to additionally be 270 units of public rental condos.
The Mount Pleasant estate sits on the site of the Old Police Academy (OPA), near the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was run as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) till 2005.
Eugene Lim, key director at ERA Singapore, mentions that the white flat design at Mount Pleasant Crest may attract more youthful Singaporeans and house owners intending to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly give them the choice to customise their layout to deal with their real estate needs, permitting adaptability over the much longer term,” he claims.
Lee Sze Teck, higher director of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, believes the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw solid interest, due to its area close to Mount Pleasant MRT Stop and schools such as CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor into demand and prices. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat rates in Toa Payoh are fairly high and the older estate has one of the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale flats,” Lee adds. Prime lodgings are subject to tighter regulations, such as a 10-year minimum occupation period and an aid clawback.
This will be the 2nd BTO project to present the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, which released last October. According to HDB, about four in 10 flat purchasers selected the style at that project.
