Hougang
Hougang | |
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Kovan, Kampong Lorong Buangkok, Flats along Hougang Avenue 4, Heritage Garden of the Institute of Mental Health, Panoramic view of Punggol Park | |
Coordinates: 01°22′17″N 103°53′33″E / 1.37139°N 103.89250°E | |
Country | Singapore |
Region | North-East Region
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CDCs | |
Town councils |
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Constituencies | |
Government | |
• Mayors | Central Singapore CDC
North East CDC South East CDC |
• Members of Parliament | Aljunied GRC
Ang Mo Kio GRC Hougang SMC Marine Parade GRC |
Area | |
• Total | 13.93 km2 (5.38 sq mi) |
• Residential | 3.67 km2 (1.42 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 226,240 |
• Density | 16,000/km2 (42,000/sq mi) |
Postal district | 19 |
Dwelling units | 51,646 |
Projected ultimate | 72,000 |
Hougang
Geography
Subzones
Hougang is separated into 10 subzones, Hougang East, Defu Industrial Park, Tai Seng, Lorong Halus, Kangkar, Hougang West, Trafalgar, Lorong Ah Soo, Kovan and Hougang Central.[6]
Etymology and history
Hougang is the
Pig farming was carried out in Punggol, including the area of Punggol that is now part of Hougang Town. The last of these pig farmers were relocated by the late-1990s to flats built in Hougang. Today, Hougang is an HDB
There was also a fishing port at the end of Upper Serangoon Road beyond the seventh milestone.
At Hougang Street 21, there was a
The development of Hougang commenced in 1977 with the construction of Tampines Way. Further construction work was subsequently completed in Neighbourhoods 1 – 3 by 1983, and later Neighbourhoods 4 – 7 by 1992. Neighbourhood 8 is the town centre of Hougang and construction was completed in 1994. Neighbourhood 9 is the most recent with a completion date in 2000.
In 2015, a project named Hougang Capeview, a Build-To-Order project at Upper Serangoon Road, became the first public housing project to receive the CONQUAS Star, an accolade administered by the Building and Construction Authority. Hougang Capeview, which comprises 781 residential units in six blocks at Upper Serangoon Road, received a Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS) score of more than 95, above the national average of 88.2. The CONQUAS score is BCA's measure of construction quality across Singapore.[8]
Shopping
Hougang has 8 shopping malls which are
- Hougang Mall, a seven-storey shopping mall with an NTUC FairPrice outlet, Singtel outlet, Starhub outlet, and Popular bookstore. The mall serves the residents of Hougang Central.
- Hougang Green Shopping Mall, a four-storey shopping mall with a 24/7 Giant outlet. The mall serves Hougang West.
- The Midtown, a mixed development with a condominium and a cluster of shops in Hougang Central.
- Hougang 1, a suburban mall with an NTUC FairPrice Xtra outlet in Hougang West.
- Heartland Mall, a suburban mall in Kovan. It has a Cold Storage outlet and Popular bookstore.
- Kang Kar Mall, a two-storey shopping centre which has a Kang Kar Food Court and a two-storey NTUC FairPrice outlet.
- Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre, a suburban mall that has a cluster of shops, it serves residents of Kovan.
- Buangkok Square Shopping Mall, a mixed development shopping mall in Buangkok with condominiums and a three-storey shopping mall with McDonald's, and a Prime Supermarket.
Transport
Bus Interchange
Hougang Central Bus Interchange
Hougang Central Bus Interchange is a bus interchange serving the town of Hougang. It is located directly above
Bus Depots
Hougang Bus Depot
Hougang Bus Depot is an SBS Transit West District bus depot located in Hougang, Singapore. As of November 2014, the total fleet is 600 buses. Hougang Bus Depot started operations in 1983 when the north-east which is Hougang and Serangoon was developed and previously, all operations had been on Ang Mo Kio Bus Depot and Bedok Bus Depot respectively.
Mass Rapid Transit stations
Hougang MRT station
Hougang MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North East line and Cross Island line in the Hougang planning area in Singapore. Located within the Hougang Town Centre, the station is directly connected to Hougang Central Bus Interchange. This station will become an interchange station along the Cross Island line when Stage 1 of the Cross Island line opens in 2030.
Kovan MRT station
Kovan MRT station is an underground
Tai Seng MRT station
Tai Seng MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line, situated on the boundary of Hougang planning area. Located along Upper Paya Lebar Road, Tai Seng station was named after and primarily serves the industrial clusters at Tai Seng, which in turn means 'big accomplishment' in Chinese. The name was first used on a rubber factory constructed in the area in 1917.
Defu MRT station
Defu MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Cross Island MRT line in Hougang planning area, Singapore. It will serve the Defu Industrial Park.
Serangoon North MRT station
Serangoon North MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Cross Island MRT line located on the boundary of Hougang planning area in Singapore.
Mass Rapid Transit Depots
Kim Chuan Depot
Kim Chuan Depot is a
Tai Seng Facility Building
Tai Seng Facility Building, abbreviated as TSFB, (or Tai Seng) is an underground
Road networks
Two of the oldest main roads: Upper Serangoon Road and Punggol Road run through Hougang since the town's beginning. The town is also linked to other towns by Yio Chu Kang Road in the West, Tampines Road in the East, Upper Paya Lebar Road to the south-East, Buangkok Drive & Buangkok Green in the North.
Other roads in Hougang New Town links the town to bigger roads, most importantly Avenue 2, 3 which links the town from East and West.
Amenities
Most of Hougang's commercial activity is centred on a few shopping malls such as Hougang Mall, Kang Kar Mall, Heartland Mall, Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre and Hougang 1 (Formerly known as Hougang Point, and opened in End 1999).
Similar to most other residential towns in Singapore, Hougang was designed to be a partially
One of the more prominent landmarks in Hougang is the Buangkok Green Medical Park, which houses several medical facilities including the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (SILRA).
The Hougang Central Bus Interchange serves Hougang Town with a range of bus services going to other parts of the island. It is located in Hougang Central, near Hougang Mall and it has an underground link to
Two even older bus terminals operated in Hougang before the construction of the Hougang Central and Hougang South Bus Interchanges. One was at the end of Upper Serangoon Road in Kangkar Village, which was replaced by Hougang Central, while the other was at the sixth and a half milestone of Upper Serangoon Road, which was replaced by Hougang South.[9]
Highlights
A distinctive feature of Hougang lies in the large semi-circular balconies which occur in many Housing and Development Board public housing flats in the area. This feature is not as prevalent in public housing outside Hougang. The latest addition of new Condominium will be Florence Residences in 2019.
Politics
The political representation of Hougang was split into four different constituencies as of the
Hougang SMC
The area covering Hougang Avenues 2, 5, 7 and a small portion of Hougang Central, falls under the namesake Hougang SMC, where it was carved out from Punggol ward ahead of the
Aljunied GRC
The area covering south of Hougang Avenues 6, 8, 10, as well as Punggol Park, Defu Industrial Park and the subregion of Kovan, falls under Aljunied GRC. The western portions of Hougang, previously being Serangoon Gardens division, were split into two divisions with Jalan Kayu in the Ang Mo Kio GRC and Serangoon in the Aljunied GRC. The area was previously belong to the short-lived Thomson GRC in 1991.
The GRC was not contested in 2001 with the WP being disqualified due to incomplete applications, but in the 2006 elections, the WP were able to pose a strong challenge for this ward, with the members consist of WP's chairwoman Sylvia Lim and former members Goh Meng Seng and James Gomez.[11]
The GRC was managed by the PAP which members include Cynthia Phua and George Yeo, until it became the first opposition held GRC since the creation of the GRC in Singapore after the 2011 Singaporean general election being taken over by Low Thia Khiang's WP team. The WP continued to hold the GRC in the 2015 and 2020 Singaporean general elections with Leon Perera and Gerald Giam replacing Low and Chen Show Mao.
Ang Mo Kio GRC
The north-western portions of Hougang (Avenues 4, 8 and 9, and Street 91), which includes Hougang Stadium and Regentville Condo, falls under the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang division of the Ang Mo Kio GRC. Its MP is Darryl David, who replaces former MP Yeo Guat Kwang after the 2015 elections. Prior to the 2011 elections, the ward was a part of Aljunied GRC (under the name of Aljunied-Hougang), where Yeo was then the MP.
The northern portions of Hougang (north of Avenues 6, 8 and Street 51) also falls under the Ang Mo Kio-Hougang division, part of Ang Mo Kio GRC. It previously belonged to
The western portions of Hougang, previously being Serangoon Gardens division, were split into two divisions with Jalan Kayu in the Ang Mo Kio GRC and Serangoon in the Aljunied GRC.
Marine Parade GRC
The southernmost portion of Hougang, Tai Seng, was under the Geylang Serai division of Marine Parade GRC, where Mohd Fahmi Aliman represented the ward. Marine Parade was also contested by WP during the 2015 and 2020 elections.
Education
Hougang has a total of nine primary schools, eight secondary schools and a single international school as of 2024.
Primary schools
- CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity
- Holy Innocents' Primary School
- Hougang Primary School
- Montfort Junior School
- Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Primary)
- Punggol Primary School
- Xinghua Primary School
- Xinmin Primary School
- Yio Chu Kang Primary School
Secondary schools
- Bowen Secondary School
- Holy Innocents' High School
- Hougang Secondary School
- Montfort Secondary School
- Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Secondary)
- Serangoon Secondary School
- Xinmin Secondary School
- Yuying Secondary School
Other schools
- DIMENSIONS International College (Kovan Campus)
See also
References
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- ^ HDB Key Statistics FY 2014/2015 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Land Area and Dwelling Units by Town". Data Singapore. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Statistics Singapore – Geographic Distribution – 2018 Latest Data". Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Hougang (Planning Area, Singapore) – Population Statistics and Location in Maps and Charts". City Population (with data from Singapore Department of Statistics). Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
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- ^ "OneMap, see Historical Maps from 1970s or earlier". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Hougang BTO development gets top award for construction quality – Channel NewsAsia". Channel NewsAsia. Archived from the original on 22 September 2015.
- ^ List of former bus stations in Singapore
- ^ "E: WP takes Hougang, PAP wins 11 SMCs". Channel NewsAsia. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ Aljunied Group Representation Constituency
Sources
- Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2003), Toponymics – A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern Universities Press, ISBN 981-210-205-1
- The Florence Residences