Paya Lebar Airbase to make way for future town with 150,000 new homes

When Paya Lebar Airbase moves out in the 2030s, it will be redeveloped right into a brand-new town with around 150,000 brand-new homes, states Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, at the National Day Rally on Aug 21.
Read additionally: The following chapter in Paya Lebar’s growth

The moving of the airbase to Changi was revealed in the National Day Rally of 2013. Paya Lebar Airport officially opened up in 1955, and was Singapore’s very first industrial global flight terminal before Changi Airport was constructed. In 1981, Paya Lebar Airport was exchanged a military airbase.

Artist’s perception of future town with main spine on the website of the Paya Lebar Airbase when it’s relocated

The path can be repurposed into the community’s “central spinal column”, as well as became “an eco-friendly connector” or neighborhood area extending from one end of the community to the other.

” It will be a distinct …