Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor right into need and pricing. “The project might be a Prime BTO as resale flat prices in Toa Payoh are quite high and the older estate has among the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale flats,” Lee adds. Prime apartments are subject to tighter rules, like a 10-year minimum occupation duration and an aid clawback.
The very first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be opened as part of the October 2025 BTO exercise. Labelled Mount Pleasant Crest, it is going to give about 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There are going to additionally be 270 units of public rental apartments.
HDB states the “white flat” layout will be offered at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat clients can choose the open-concept layout, that provides an adjoining living and bedroom space without separation wall structures, when they are welcomed to book a flat.
According to HDB, the expanded supply adheres to “further detailed planning researches” and will assist to match good real estate interest.
This will be the 2nd BTO project to offer the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, that launched last October. According to HDB, about four in 10 flat customers went with the design at that project.
Eugene Lim, key director at ERA Singapore, mentions that the white flat design at Mount Pleasant Crest might interest more youthful Singaporeans and home owners meaning to do extensive renovations. “A white flat typology will certainly provide the alternative to customise their layout to accommodate their housing needs, permitting versatility over the much longer term,” he states.
Six buildings, which HDB states were “identified as one of the most significant representations of police heritage”, have actually been conserved and will be integrated right into the new estate. Four blocks are going to be repurposed for alternate purposes including an area police post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block will remain to act as the Senior Police Officers’ Mess, while another will be incorporated into future property developments. Furthermore, the former OPA parade square will be retained as public space for community use.
Offered by the new Mount Pleasant MRT Station on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant will be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, broader foot ways and cycling paths. New roads, consisting of a main thoroughfare called “Old Police Academy Road”, will even be built to enhance accessibility. There will additionally be a sheltered pedestrian highway that connects the numerous precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB says.
Lee Sze Teck, senior supervisor of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, believes the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will draw strong interest, due to its place near Mount Pleasant MRT Terminal and schools like CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
The Mount Pleasant estate remains on the location of the Old Police Academy (OPA), close to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was used as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) up until 2005.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are prepared for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, that will yield approximately 6,000 new apartments upon finish. This is 1,000 more than the 5,000 units formerly revealed for the 33ha site, HDB states in a Sept 2 announcement.
