Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
According to HDB, the raised supply follows “more detailed planning investigations” and are going to help to match strong housing interest.
The first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be opened as part of the October 2025 BTO exercise. Called Mount Pleasant Crest, it will offer about 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There will additionally be 270 units of public rental apartments.
This will be the second BTO project to present the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, which released last October. According to HDB, around four in 10 flat customers opted for the layout at that project.
Lee Sze Teck, senior director of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, thinks the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw strong interest, due to its place near Mount Pleasant MRT Station and schools such as CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into need and prices. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat prices in Toa Payoh are quite high and the mature estate has one of the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale condos,” Lee adds. Prime lodgings are subject to tighter regulations, such as a 10-year minimum occupation duration and an aid clawback.
Offered by the brand-new Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant are going to be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, broader foot tracks and cycling pathways. New roads, consisting of a primary highway named “Old Police Academy Road”, will additionally be created to improve ease of access. There will even be a sheltered pedestrian road that connects the numerous precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB says.
The Mount Pleasant estate rests on the spot of the Old Police Academy (OPA), close to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was utilized as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) till 2005.
Eugene Lim, key executive officer at ERA Singapore, indicates that the white flat theme at Mount Pleasant Crest might appeal to younger Singaporeans and home owners meaning to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly give them the choice to customise their format to deal with their real estate needs, allowing for adaptability over the much longer term,” he claims.
HDB states the “white flat” layout will be given at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat clients can select the open-concept layout, which offers an adjoining living and bedroom room without separation surfaces, when they are called to book a flat.
Six structures, which HDB states were “recognized as the most substantial depictions of police heritage”, have actually been preserved and will definitely be integrated into the brand-new estate. Four blocks will be repurposed for different usages like a neighbourhood authorities post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block is going to remain to act as the Senior Police Officers’ Mess, while another will be integrated right into future projects. Additionally, the former OPA parade square will be kept as public space for community use.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are prepared for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, which will generate approximately 6,000 new flats upon completion. This is 1,000 more than the 5,000 units formerly released for the 33ha site, HDB says in a Sept 2 news release.
