Petition against Upper Changi cluster homes
Residents fear project will create parking snarl; URA notes enough parking spaces provided
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A group of residents in a private estate of landed homes in Upper Changi have banded together to protest against the development of a cluster-housing project that they say will create a parking nightmare.
The petition, which has gathered 100 signatures from 85 of the approximately 110 households in Toh Estate, was handed in at a meeting with the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman, the MP for the area.
The residents are worried about a 1,600 sq m site at the end of a cul-de-sac, or dead end road, in Toh Drive, where two bungalows have been demolished to make way for eight strata-titled semi-detached houses, also known as cluster homes. Piling work has already begun.
Conventionally, each redeveloped bungalow in the estate has created space for a pair of semi-detached houses.
