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  • Riverbank @ Fernvale Resident In ‘Living Nightmare’ After Ceiling ‘Rains’ Rocks And Debris

    Riverbank @ Fernvale Resident In ‘Living Nightmare’ After Ceiling ‘Rains’ Rocks And Debris

    Stomp contributor Justin is disappointed that barely one month after moving into his brand new apartment at Riverbank @ Fernvale, things are already falling apart.

    Justin and his family moved into their new home at the condominium in July but before National Day, they discovered that water was leaking through a fake ceiling in their bathroom.

    “We came back home and when one of my children switched on the light to the bathroom, it caused the whole house’s electricity to trip,” said Justin.

    We brought this to the attention of the security guard who gave them the contact number of the contractor for the property.

    Justin said:

    “They came last Friday to saw open the ceiling to investigate what went wrong, then told us they would contact us on Monday (Aug 21) to continue the repair.”

    However, Monday came and went and they heard no word from the company.

    Already disappointed at what had happened, Justin was shocked when debris started ‘raining’ from the hole left in the bathroom’s ceiling.

    “I WhatsApped the contractor but I didn’t get a reply,” said Justin.

    He added that he also tried contacting the developer but has been unsuccessful in getting a response from them.

    “I’m just very disappointed that our brand new home has so many problems.

    “It’s really not fair to us.”

    Justin wanted to share his experience with more people so that someone might be able to relieve his plight.

     

    Source: STOMP

  • Suspicious Man Loitering Around Void Deck In Sengkang, Parents With Kids To Be Wary

    Suspicious Man Loitering Around Void Deck In Sengkang, Parents With Kids To Be Wary

    Salam everyone.. Just wanted to share something that happened to me this morning (5 July) at Fernvale, Sengkang West Way.

    After sending my 2nd daughter off through her school van, me and my youngest daughter proceeded to take the lift back home.

    Out of nowhere, a guy who looks like a chinese national, hop on the same lift as me looking rather suspicious.

    This was the same guy who was lurking around the void deck when I was waiting to fetch my daughter from her school van yesterday. Moreover, he was wearing the exact same shirt as the day before.

    He pressed the 13th floor but throughout the journey up, he kept glancing towards my youngest daughter.

    I felt uneasy and alighted from the lift. Surprisingly, the lift stopped just a storey above me. I quickly went back home to inform my husband who was fortunately on off today about the incident in the lift.

    While discussing, I just had the intuition to peep through the peephole and to my horror, that same guy was lurking just outside my house!

    I hid away but Hubby decided to confront the guy to ask for his intention for standing in front of our house. He claimed to be ‘working’ and is here everyday but Hubby called his bluff asking where is his town council shirt then and if he’s not with the town council, do provide his supervisor’s contact details. When he could not answer all those queries, Hubby threatened to call the police. The guy immediately said sorry and ran down the stairs.

    That whole incident send goosebumps all over my body.

    Hubby did call the police to inform them about the matter. The guy was about 170cm-ish aged probably in the late 30s/ early 40s wearing a grey nike shirt and cream coloured shorts. The only mistake was hubby forgot to snap a photo of the guy as he was charging his phone.

    The police mentioned that they will step up the patrolling and would only go through footages from cctv cameras at the staircase landing should the guy appear again.

    Sharing this here so that we can all be extra vigilant when we’re bringing our kids outside.

     

    Source: Nur Haryani Husni

  • New Tender Called For Sengkang Columbarium Site

    New Tender Called For Sengkang Columbarium Site

    A new tender has been called at the Sengkang site originally awarded to a commerical firm to build a Chinese temple housing a columbarium.

    An outcry from residents in the area had led the authorities to terminate the project.

    On Tuesday, the Housing and Development Board (HDB) put up a tender notice for the site at Fernvale Link for the development of a Chinese temple.

    The site, which has an area of 2,000 sq m, will be leased for a term of 30 years.

    The Ministry of National Development (MND) had said in May that the land would be released for re-tender when it signed a mutual termination agreement with Eternal Pure Land, the company which had secured the original bid.

    Tender documents uploaded on the HDB website showed that provisions had been put in place to allow only religious groups to bid for the land.

    “To qualify for participation in this Tender, the Tenderer must be established or constituted for the advancement of religion,” said the documents.

    For-profit companies have been excluded from the tender. Only registered societies, charities and non-profit companies can qualify.

    The tender closes on Aug 4.

    The previous tender had been awarded to Eternal Pure Land, a commercial company that planned to build a temple and commercial columbarium on the land.

    After residents in Build-To-Order flats around the development complained about the land going to a commercial entity, MND terminated the previous tender agreement, and refunded the company the $5.2 million it had paid for the land.

    The ministry also released a small plot of land along Tampines Road, zoned for cemetery use, to the company for a “pilot project” for columbarium services.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Lam Pin Min: I’ve No Intention To Mislead Residents

    Lam Pin Min: I’ve No Intention To Mislead Residents

    Three years ago in 2012, in a blog post, MP Sengkang West Lam Pin Min happily announced that a new big-time commercial mall to be built by SPH, was coming to his constituency.

    The big mall, which was later named Seletar Mall, is situated next to Fernvale Point, a small neighbourhood shopping centre managed by HDB.

    Dr Lam wrote on his blog (‘New Commercial Complex @ Fernvale – Coming soon‘):

    HDB launched the tender of a commercial site at Sengkang West Avenue/Fernvale Road, next to Fernvale Point and Fernvale LRT station. The land parcel has a site area of 8,790.3 sq m and has a maximum allowable gross floor area of 26,370.9 sq m.

    The tender exercise for this commercial plot attracted a total of 12 bids, with Earth Holdings, a subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), offering the highest bid of S$328 million…

    Immediately after his announcement, a resident asked him if Fernvale Point would be demolished with the launch of Seletar Mall, as he was working at Fernvale Point and he wouldn’t want to be unemployed:

    Dr Lam replied confidently that Fernvale Point will not be demolished as it “still gas (has) many years to go”:

    This was in 2012.

    Fernvale Point closed in April 2015

    Last month (22 Apr), the media suddenly reported that Fernvale Point would be closed by end April. It reported that without the wet market and neighbourhood shops, residents are complaining. Fernvale Point, managed by HDB, had a wet market, NTUC FairPrice, coffee shops and neighbourhood shops:

    The closing of Fernvale Point came 5 months after the opening of SPH’s Seletar Mall in November last year. ST even wrote an article to hype up the launch of Seletar Mall (‘Fernvale all abuzz over arrival of new Seletar Mall‘):

    “The opening of the gleaming new Seletar Mall on Nov 28 looks set to transform this corner in the north-west of Sengkang. Sited next to Fernvale LRT station, the new complex will offer more than 130 brands over four storeys and two basement levels.

    Anchor tenants include supermarket FairPrice Finest, Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo, department store BHG and Shaw Theatres, which will be opening Sengkang’s first cinema.”

    Fernvale Point provided cheap shopping

    Note that when NTUC FairPrice moved from Fernvale Point to Seletar Mall, it has turned its supermarket to FairPrice Finest, catering to the upper end of the market. In other words, grocery will be more expensive there than before.

    Indeed, many residents are not happy with Fernvale Point being demolished because it provided them with cheap shopping, especially the ability to buy food from the wet market. Many Singaporeans are already trying their best to cope with the rising marketing expenses, partly attributed to the high rentals incurred by shopkeepers and stall owners. Many wanted their wet market back and do not wish to see another condominium built on the vacated Fernvale Point:

    Govt already reserves site for high-rise residential development

    Some enterprising netizens managed to dig out the Govt’s plan for the vacated Fernvale Point site together with the open space next to Fernvale Point.

    Apparently, the Govt has already reserved these 2 sites for “future high-rise residential development”:

    A netizen wrote that many Sengkang residents don’t wish to see yet another condominium built at the sites. He also revealed that Dr Lam has been deleting postings on his Facebook page mentioning about the sites reserved for high-rise residential development (‘MP Lam deletes FB queries on Fernvale Point‘):

    “A condominium is what most residents do not want because of the noise produced by the construction, and because it does not meet their needs. Fernvale is a small town that has already been squeezed with lots of high-rise apartments and scarce facilities to meet the needs of the young couples who have moved in. One resident voiced out that she did not want to see her town become a concrete jungle with no kampong spirit.

    Why couldn’t Dr Lam tell them straight that the current development plan for that plot of land is to build yet another high-rise residential development. I do not believe that as the MP he is unaware of the intended use for that parcel of land. Why let them continue to have false hopes that they would get their market, childcare centre or community centre?

    Furthermore, attempts by netizens to post the current development plan on Dr Lam’s wall have failed because comments that reveal the use of land for condominium building have been swiftly deleted.“

    Dr Lam says he did not mislead residents

    In any case, he posted a message on his Facebook page recently saying that he has no intentions to mislead the residents:

    So, what do you think? From promising that Fernvale Point “still gas (has) many years to go” to deleting Facebook postings which revealed Govt’s plan to develop high-rise residential units at the sites, has Dr Lam misled Sengkang residents?

    Do tell us your views.

     

    Source: www.tremeritus.com

  • No Refund For Fernvale Residents Who Cancel Booking Following Columbarium Fallout

    No Refund For Fernvale Residents Who Cancel Booking Following Columbarium Fallout

    The Housing Board (HDB) has rejected the requests of unhappy flat buyers for refunds of their new flats in Sengkang, made last month when they discovered that a temple with a commercial columbarium would be built near their estate.

    The project will no longer go ahead as planned.

    HDB said in a statement it received 95 requests as at Feb 9 from future residents of three Build-To-Order (BTO) projects along Fernvale Link – Fernvale Lea, Fernvale Rivergrove and Fernvale Riverbow – asking to cancel their booking but with a refund.

    These 95 requests make up 2.4 per cent out of the total of 4,000 units among the three BTO projects.

    HDB also reiterated that the Ministry of National Development and its agencies would ensure that the site is restored to the original plan of a Chinese temple.

    Whether it will have a columbarium will depend on the temple’s trustees, and is subject to the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s guidelines and approval.

    HDB sent its official letters or e-mail to buyers informing them of their unsuccessful request on Feb 16.

    The flat buyers were also given up to this Friday to notify HDB if they wished to proceed with the cancellation of their flat application.

    If they do, they will be subject to the standard process of cancellation, wherein they forfeit the option fee they paid if they cancel before signing the Agreement for Lease.

    If they cancel after signing the agreement, they will forfeit 5 per cent of the flat’s purchase price.

    The appeals for refund were made after buyers discovered that a temple complex with a commercial columbarium, run by Australian-listed company Life Corporation through its subsidiary Eternal Pure Land, would be built near their estate.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com