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Couple who built gate, two boundary walls and fence on state land charged

They constructed gate, two boundary walls, fence around their landed property

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The owners of a house in Jalan Kayu estate who built a metal gate, two boundary walls and a fence around the landed property have been charged with encroaching on state land.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said that it had in 2013 instructed the owners, Tan Teck Siong and his wife Cheah Mee Poh, to remove the structures as national water agency PUB was carrying out drainage improvement works in the estate.
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