Urban Redevelopment Authority Singapore Website Banner (2007)

Introduction URA Website The URA website, launched in 1996, is an initiative owned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The website is positioned as the one-stop for all URA e-services on the web and organised with the needs of the public and customers in mind. The URA website enables users: To search for and access a diversity of information from URA To conduct a wide range of transactions online with URA About URA The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore’s national land use planning authority. URA prepares long term strategic plans, as well as detailed local area plans, for physical development, and then co-ordinates and guides efforts to bring these plans to reality. Prudent land use planning has enabled Singapore to enjoy strong economic growth and social cohesion, and ensures that sufficient land is safeguarded to support continued economic progress and future development. Introduction Given Singapore’s small size, judicious land use planning is critical for the nation’s future. URA has to take into consideration not just the needs of the city but all the needs of an independent nation and provide sufficient land for economic growth and future development. Our mission is to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play in. We carry out our mission by planning and facilitating the physical development of Singapore, in partnership with the community, to create a vibrant, sustainable and cosmopolitan city of distinction. Challenges With a limited land area of about 699 sq km, URA faces immense challenges in land use planning to house the needs of a nation state. Not all the land area can be developed. For example, water catchment areas already take up 40 per cent of the land area. Height restrictions imposed by our airports on buildings limit how high some of our buildings can go. For instance, flats in housing towns in Tampines, Simei and Changi cannot exceed 12 storeys because of the flight paths of planes from Changi International Airport. Land also has to be set aside for military uses. Our challenge is to find smart solutions so that there will always be space for all our needs. One way is to create new land by reclamation off our seashore. The other way is to make the most of the land we already have. We intensify land use by locating various facilities together instead of separately. For example, we locate stormwater collection ponds under road flyovers; we build stack factories; we go underground; we locate train stations and bus stations over each other. We also constantly find ways to minimise constraints on development by using technology such as cleaner power station fuel to reduce buffer zones of pollutive factories, or we group such industries together and relocate them off shore.

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