Woodland or the Woodlands Newtown is a suburban town which has three distinctive constituencies which is grouped under Sembwang Town Council and is located in the northern part of Singapore. Woodlands is popularly known as gateway into Malaysia via. Cause way. Causeway is at the tip of Woodlands which connects Singapore with Malaysia and is one of the busiest roadway, which because thousands of workers travel from Singapore to Malaysia each day. Woodlands is bounded by Johor Strait in the north, Selter Expressway in the south, Sembwang town in the east and by Bukit Timah Expressway in the west.
Once the Singapore was established Woodlands was founded fundamentally to connect the Malayan peninsula via. Johor-Singapore causeway. This district was named after the rubber trees which used to grow here in the early days beside the rubber plantation it was also home for poultry farming and villages in the old days.
The total area in which Woodlands is spread is about 13.67 sq km and the area use for residential purpose is nearly half of its area. Most of the housing seen in Woodlands is of HDB but some of the condominiums are blossoming recently. The total population of Woodlands is about 192,700 peoples.
Development plans of Woodlands took place in two phases, under which the Woodland Estate, Woodland Road and the areas in the northern region developed extensively. During the years 1970c to 1980s the Woodland Newtown was developed under the Ring Concept in which HDB had to house the growing population because of industrialization in Woodland. The first 1,300 housing units of HDB flats were completed by 1972 by the year 1994 a total of 22,457 HDB flats were built completely. As part of Development Guide Plan (DGP) which was implemented by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Woodland was marked for its rapid developments and transformation into regional center of northern Singapore.
Woodland road was developed rapidly during 1990s when the first MRT of Woodland was completed in 1996, in the same year the first ever underground bus interchange was started beneath the Woodland MRT station.
Many public amenities have been opened like schools, community halls, sporting centers, cinema hall etc. have been developed as a plan of development by HDB so as to serve the residents of Woodland.
The Causeway Shopping Center which is one of the biggest shopping center in Singapore was completed and opened for public in 1999, it is big seven storey’s building located near the MRT station, has number of shopping amenities, banks, cinema hall etc. in it.
Woodland is divided into three subzones and they are:
• Marsiling
• Woodgrove
• Admiralty.
Woodland is served by the Woodland MRT, Marsiling MRT and Admiralty MRT stations and there are number of bus services which circulate trough Woodland and they are Feeder Service, Express Service, SMRT, SSB Transit, Trunk Service and Premium Service.
Above is the information about Woodland and it housing estate.
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