The Paya Lebar Air Base and its surrounding industrial areas will yield a space five times the size of Toa Payoh that will be developed progressively, instead of all at once, to allow for future flexibility.

Speaking to The Straits Times last week (Feb 21), the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) chief planner Hwang Yu-Ning said: “Paya Lebar is a very large area and certainly as we build, we won’t use up all the land at a shot.

“We will build progressively over time. And that time dimension gives us that flexibility to adjust the plans as we go along.”

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