When Paya Lebar Airbase leaves in the 2030s, it will certainly be redeveloped into a brand-new town with around 150,000 brand-new residences, says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, at the National Day Rally on Aug 21.
Read likewise: The following phase in Paya Lebar’s development
The relocation of the airbase to Changi was revealed in the National Day Rally of 2013. Paya Lebar Airport officially opened up in 1955, as well as was Singapore’s very first commercial international airport before Changi Airport was built. In 1981, Paya Lebar Airport was converted into an armed forces airbase.
When it’s moved, Artist’s impact of future town with central spinal column on the site of the Paya Lebar Airbase
The runway can be repurposed right into the community’s “main back”, and turned into “an eco-friendly port” or community space extending from one end of the town to the other.
The path extends 3.8 …