Norwood Grand @ Champion Way

The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore has been ramping up with Singapore’s private homes supply progressively for the last 2 years since 2020. This was to meet the robust demand of home buyers. As the demand for private housing units remained strong, the Urban Redevelopment Authority had made its decision to increase the supply further. On its reserved list, the land parcels can yield another 3.625 private residential units which can be triggered for developers to bid if there is assessment that there will be more demand.

The increase in the number of private housing units for the 1^st Half of 2023 Government Land Sales Programme ramped up the supply in pipeline to 65,000 private housing units of which 55,000 of them are with approved planning and 9,900 of them from the Government Land Sales land parcels and successful collective sales that have not gotten approved planning.

The land parcel of Norwood Grand has a total plot area of approximately 1.44 hectares and with a gross plot ratio of 2.1. The land parcel can potentially yield up to 345 private residential units. Norwood Grand is the first private residential development site to be launched in Woodlands since more than 10 years ago. The last private residential development land parcel was in the 2011 Government Land Sales Programme. That site has since been constructed into Parc Rosewood, a 689 private residential units’ development jointly developed by Aspial Group and Fragrance Group.

The Woodlands district is a residential town and planning zone that is at Singapore’s island northern tip. It is also one of the 4 regional centres in Singapore, the others being Paya Lebar Central, Jurong Lake District and Tampines Region Centre. The regional centres serve a 2^nd tier business hub outside the main Central Business District. These regional centres will help in decentralization by easing overcrowding and congestions in the main Central Business District. These vibrant centres will allow their residents living there to learn, play, live and work. They will create new and exciting job opportunities and bring work close to home.

As 2019, Woodlands is one of the densest towns with approximately 254,000 residents. It was developed back in the 1980s. The Woodlands district faces Sungei Kadut on its west, the Mandai estate on its south and the Sembawang town on its east. It is also the border connect between Singapore and Malaysia.

Norwood Grand is situated well inside in the Woodlands Regional Centre and will be expecting strong interest from many property investors and home buyers alike as many new amenities will be progressively open up within Woodlands Regional Centre such as an integrated medical centre which has a nursing home, a community hospital and an acute care hospital in the complex.

The Woodlands Regional Centre is approximately 100 hectares in size and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore has already plans in line to transformed it into a major commercial hub which is sizeable and create more jobs for its residents. It will be home to new areas for innovation, learning, research and development as well as industry. With the completion of the MRT Thomson East Coast Line, it ill provide enhanced connectivity from the Woodlands Regional Centre to Singapore’s other key destination. The Woodlands Regional Centre is envisioned to the key node for new opportunities for businesses and residents alike.

The regional centre will offer a wide range of flexible industrial and office spaces to cater to the demand for different businesses within an alluring green and lush setting within distances to a wide waterfront.

This new business centre will comprise of 2 complementary and distinctive zones which is the Woodlands North Coast and Woodlands Central. These 2 precincts are well-linked to one another by pleasant and green walking and cycling paths which include 2 pedestrian accesses namely Central Spine and Woodsvista Gallery. With all these, it will create Woodland Regional Centre to become a unique learn-play-work-live access district for Singapore’s northern zone.

The Woodlands North Coast which is approximately 70 hectares in size will be a waterfront district with housings, expansive spaces for recreations and a wide spectrum of business spaces. It will be a mixed-use lifestyle and business district that is well-connected. The work spaces offer high flexibility that encourages innovation and experimentation to meet the needs of both MNCs and SMEs.

The Woodlands Central will comprise good blend of dining, entertainment, residential, retail, office as well as further complementary spaces. These retail and office developments will help to convert the Woodlands Central to become a key business node and enhance the centre’s position further as the key regional centre that serve the businesses and residents in North Region Over 10,000 housing units will be built in the regional centre in 2 districts. Coupled with the nearby Republic Polytechnic, this district will be a play, learn, work and live setting.

The WoodsVista Gallery, which cut through the precinct, is a communal link that is dedicated to walking and cycling paths. It will help to offer seamless connectivity from the Woodlands North Coast to the Woodlands MRT Station. The link will be enveloped by low-rise developments and use for community events and activities that are intimate experiences to its residents. To travel within the Woodland Central will be easy as the public spaces are connected by sheltered walkways as well as designated cycling tracks within the compound.

The Woodlands Central, which is approximately 30 hectares in size, will be transforming into a well-connected, vibrant and appealing precinct for firms in the agri-tech, food technology, technology and science as well as business services industries. There will also be upcoming entertainment and recreation amenities to be constructed within the precinct.

The Woodlands Central also houses major F&B, retail and offices establishments such as the Woodlands MRT, the Woodlands Bus Interchange, the Woods Square and the Causeway Point. The Woodland North Coast, other than housing the Republic Polytechnic, will also have a good blend of both private and public homes coupled with upcoming developments such as industrial and commercial estates and business park. The upcoming waterfront park will be linked to the Sembawang Shipyard Development that will boast waterfront living comparable to the East Coast Park and the Greater Southern Waterfront. The Northshore Plaza in Punggol will be a preview of the it be like in the future.

As the largest business hub in the North, the Northern Agri-Tech and Food Corridor will have the Regional Centre as its strategic hub. The industries operating there will include distribution and packaging of food produce. There will also be Research and Development firms that specialized in renewable energy, waste management and feed production. This means that more demand for housings will be expected in the coming future when all these retail outlets and office spaces are constructed.

Throughout the years, Woodlands has shaken its image as a remote town. The improvements for the MRT network in the north precincts as well as better road networks that connects all these areas of Singapore to the city core. More amenities such as eating establishments, attractions and suburban malls, housing developments have been also added to here. There has also been 4 HDB resale flats that had been transaction for over $1 million in Woodlands This helps in the appreciation of price for housings in Woodlands.

With the Singapore-Johor Bahru Rapid Transit System still in place and under development, unlike the High Speed Rail which is shelved, it will allow new accessibility in cross-border for residents and tenants. Whilst other parts of Singapore just get to have a new MRT or LRT station, the residents in Woodland will get a new MRT station as well as a cross border link that will link to Johor Bahru’s Bukit Chagar by 2027. The Rapid Transit System Link will be built in parallel to the Causeway and it will pass through the tunnel below the Johor Straits.

The new MRT station that serve the MRT Thomson East Coast Line will allow future residents of Norwood Grand directly get to the Orchard Shopping district around 31 minutes and the Shenton Way around 38 minutes. This means that future residents can easily get to choose if they want go toward the north to Johor Bahru for shopping or towards their south to have gatherings with their friends in the downtown of Singapore. For investors, it means that the tenant pool will be bigger as the properties in Woodlands will be appealing to those who have families in Johor but want to work and stay in Singapore.

With the North-South Corridor completing in 2027, it will ease up the traffic congestion in Central Expressway and cut down the traveling time from North to South. The Central Expressway is the only expressway that connects Woodlands to the South before the completion of the North-South Corridor. It will be the country’s 11^th expressway. It is not just like any other expressways in Singapore. The North-South Corridor will have dedicated pedestrian paths, cycling routes and bus lanes which prepares for cycle-ride-walk future.

This 21.5 kilometre long expressway will link city to the northern towns such as Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, Yishun, Sembawang and Woodlands. The continuous and dedicated means that future residents of Norwood Grand will cut down their traveling time to downtown by around 10-15 minutes. For any further details and information Contact Us or Send Email To Us.

For future residents of Norwood Grand, this means that future residents will only need to travel under 40 minutes on the MRT Thomson East Coast Line to arrive at the city centre. The Woodlands MRT Interchange Station is also just 1 MRT Station away towards the north where future residents of Norwood Grand can easily transit to the MRT North South Line. To access to the Singapore-Johor Rapid Transit System Link, future residents just need to travel 2 MRT stations.

For drivers, it will take them approximately to drive from Norwood Grand to the Orchard Shopping Belt. It will take them approximately 35 minutes to the Shenton Way. The development is also connected to the Central Expressway as well as the upcoming North-South Corridor.

Amenities
In terms of shopping and dining needs, future residents of Norwood Grand just need to head down to the nearby Woodlands Central where there are plenty of eateries, retail concepts as well as getting their daily necessities and the large-scale supermarkets there. They include Causeway Point, Woodlands Civic Centre and Woods Square.

Schools
In terms of schools, Norwood Grand is close to Innova Primary School, Si Ling Primary School, Woodgrove Primary School, Woodlands Primary School, Woodlands Ring Primary School, Admiralty Primary School, Evergreen Primary School, Fuchun Primary School, Greenwood Primary School and Qihua Primary School.