Mount Pleasant estate to have 6,000 HDB flats, up from 5,000 previously announced
Served by the new Mount Pleasant MRT Stop on the Thomson-East Coast Line, Mount Pleasant will be a car-lite estate and include Transit Priority Corridors with dedicated bus lanes, wider foot ways and cycling routes. New roadways, consisting of a major road called “Old Police Academy Road”, will additionally be created to enhance access. There will even be a sheltered pedestrian road that connects the numerous precincts in Mount Pleasant, HDB shares.
The first BTO project in the Mount Pleasant estate will be launched as part of the October 2025 BTO exercise. Named Mount Pleasant Crest, it is going to provide around 1,350 units of two-room flexi to four-room flats. There will even be 270 units of public rental condos.
HDB states the “white flat” layout will be offered at Mount Pleasant Crest. Flat investors can opt for the open-concept layout, which offers an adjoining living and bedroom room without partition wall structures, when they are invited to reserve a flat.
Four Build-to-Order (BTO) projects are planned for the upcoming Mount Pleasant estate, which will yield around 6,000 new flats upon completion. This is 1,000 greater than the 5,000 units previously revealed for the 33ha site, HDB states in a Sept 2 news release.
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Six buildings, which HDB states were “identified as one of the most considerable depictions of cops heritage”, have actually been preserved and will definitely be integrated right into the new estate. 4 blocks will be repurposed for different uses like an area cops post and SPF Heritage Gallery. One block will remain to serve as the Senior Police Officers’ Mess, while another will be integrated right into future developments. Furthermore, the previous OPA parade square will be preserved as public space for community use.
Lee Sze Teck, leading director of data analytics at Hiuttons Asia, thinks the Mount Pleasant Crest project that will be launched for sale in October will attract strong attention, due to its place near Mount Pleasant MRT Stop and schools like CHIJ Primary Toa Payoh and Singapore Chinese Girls’ School.
This will be the 2nd BTO project to present the white flat layout, after the Crawford Heights BTO project, which launched last October. According to HDB, about four in 10 flat customers chose the style at that project.
According to HDB, the increased supply adheres to “further detailed planning studies” and are going to help to match good property demand.
The Mount Pleasant estate sits on the location of the Old Police Academy (OPA), close to the Thomson Flyover off the Pan Island Expressway. The OPA was run as the training institute for the Singapore Police Force (SPF) until 2005.
Mount Pleasant’s closeness to Toa Payoh will also factor into demand and prices. “The project may be a Prime BTO as resale flat costs in Toa Payoh are fairly high and the mature estate has among the greatest numbers of million-dollar resale condos,” Lee adds. Prime flats are subject to tighter regulations, like a 10-year minimum occupation period and an aid clawback.
Eugene Lim, key director at ERA Singapore, mentions that the white flat layout at Mount Pleasant Crest might appeal to younger Singaporeans and house owners meaning to do extensive renovations. “A white level typology will provide the alternative to personalize their design to accommodate their real estate needs, permitting adaptability over the longer term,” he claims.
