Paya Lebar Airbase to make way for future town with 150,000 new homes
The relocation of the airbase to Changi was announced in the National Day Rally of 2013. Paya Lebar Airport officially opened up in 1955, and also was Singapore’s very first industrial worldwide flight terminal before Changi Airport was built. In 1981, Paya Lebar Airport was converted into an army airbase.
When Paya Lebar Airbase vacates in the 2030s, it will be redeveloped into a brand-new community with around 150,000 new houses, says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, at the National Day Rally on Aug 21.
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Artist’s impact of future community with central spine on the website of the Paya Lebar Airbase when it’s transferred
The path can be repurposed into the community’s “main spinal column”, and also turned into “a green connector” or neighborhood room prolonging from one end of the community to the other.
” It will be a eye-catching …