Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) has revised plans for two housing sites to retain more green space while targeting about 11,000 homes over the next decade, following public consultation.
HDB estimates Maju Forest will provide about 4,000 public housing units. Gillman Barracks is expected to provide about 7,000 homes, including about 5,500 public housing units. The totals are planning estimates that will be assessed further during detailed design; the housing mix and launch dates have not been announced.
At Maju Forest, the green area is set to expand from around eight hectares to about 10 hectares, roughly 45% of the 23-hectare site. HDB says a larger southern section will make the retained area wider and more contiguous. The approximately 10-hectare area will be safeguarded as a new Nature Park, with stronger links along the Clementi Nature Corridor.
Gillman Barracks will have about 12 hectares of green space, up from around eight hectares. That amounts to about 60% of the site's 20 hectares of existing greenery. Plans retain forest around a hillock and widen the north-south ecological corridor beside Lock Road and Malan Road. The greenery is intended for the upcoming Alexandra Nature Park, with connections toward the Southern Ridges, Berlayar Creek and Labrador Nature Reserve. The plan also retains 25 buildings assessed as having “Exceptional” or “High” heritage significance.
HDB said it engaged about 1,000 stakeholders. Its consultation, held from July 10 to Aug. 6, 2026, received about 7,200 submissions on Maju Forest and 2,300 on Gillman Barracks. Feedback raised concerns about habitat and biodiversity loss, ecological connections and the need for housing at the sites. Many Gillman respondents also cited the area's heritage, cultural and community value.
The agency linked housing demand partly to larger groups of Singaporeans born in the late 1980s and 1990s reaching home-buying age, alongside a trend toward smaller households as more couples, singles and seniors choose separate homes. HDB says an Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan will be in place before work begins in vegetated areas.
Gillman Barracks demolition is expected in the second half of 2027, with land preparation in 2029. Maju Forest land preparation is expected to begin in the first half of 2028.
