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In a flutter over corridor clutter in HDB estates
Overgrown plants, broken bicycles, cardboard boxes and wet laundry. HDB residents have been putting up with such corridor clutter, but should the authorities intervene when the mess gets out of hand? The Straits Times examines the issue.
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Toh Ting Wei
Marketing manager Louisa Tan, 33, was taken aback last month when she found three of her father's grape and passionfruit plants outside their Housing Board flat chopped to small stumps.
A neighbour living in their Serangoon estate had complained that the plants' leaves were going into his home, prompting warnings from the Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC).
