Article from ERA Singapore | 4 September 2025

In recent years, we have seen rapid urban development and the creation of new housing precincts and estates all around Singapore. This falls under the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) Master Plan, which outlines Singapore’s land use and development over the medium term. Over the years, we have seen the development of residential towns such as Punggol, Bidadari, and Tengah – and in the case of the most recent 2019 URA Master Plan, new residential precincts like Bayshore and Marina South. Earlier this year, the URA announced its Draft Master Plan for 2025 unveiling Singapore’s next phase of growth, where we will see new neighbourhoods being introduced as part of a greater push towards a more liveable, decentralised Singapore. Among the changes proposed are new mixed-use neighbourhoods in the Core Central Region (CCR), particularly in Pearl’s Hill (Outram), Newton, and Paterson (Orchard), aiming to diversify these lifestyle and retail belts into mixed-use urban villages.

Lying within the Outram planning area, a dense, central planning zone hosting key public services, Pearl’s Hill is an area that holds great significance in Singapore’s history. The modest hill, which stands at 45 metres tall is one of the few, rare surviving elevated spots in Singapore’s city centre.