History Tampines

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tampines avenue 10



apartment blocks in tampines town


in past, tampines covered forests, swamp , sand quarries. ironwood trees, or tempinis, grew abundantly here , gave area name. part of military training area until 1987.


the name tampines goes franklin , jackson map of 1828. named after sungei tampenus, in turn got name tampines trees (streblus elongatus) said growing there. oldest street in area, tampines road, dates 1864, when cart tract. @ turn of 20th century, tampines rubber plantation. tampines home sand quarry long time. among plantations teo tek ho , hun yeang estates.


the new town started in 1978. construction began neighbourhoods 1 , 2 , completed between 1983 , 1987 although given priority. neighbourhoods 8 , 9 started in 1985–1989, followed neighbourhood 5 completed in 1989 tampines town centre. neighbourhood 4 completed new tampines north division between 1986 , 1988. tampines town @ fast paced expansion, breaks tampines east, tampines west, tampines north , tampines changkat divisions.


for singapore mrt plans, showed tampines north , tampines south since planning stages due similar townships 1979 1982, before renamed respectively in 1985 tampines , simei.


new construction methods expedited development of town s infrastructure. more attractive designs, colours , finishings incorporated tampines, compared earlier public housing consisted of uniform slabs of concrete laid out row after row more thought given function form. housing , development board (hdb) managed construction of town until 1991, when handed reins on tampines town council. town council run grassroot leaders , residents themselves.


the building , social housing foundation (bshf) of united nations awarded world habitat award tampines, selected representative of singapore s new towns, on 5 october 1992. award given in recognition of outstanding contribution towards human settlement , development.


neighbourhoods 3 , 7 completed in 1997, , constituencies had been reformed include new tampines central division. construction paused until developments of tampines central started in 2010, includes premiere @ tampines, tampines greenleaf, centrale 8, tampines trilliant , citylife @ tampines, including of other leftover pockets of residential developments such tampines greenterrace, arc @ tampines, q bay residences , santorini.


neighbourhood 6, known tampines north new town, has started construction first build-to-order (bto) flats tampines greenridges being announced @ end of november 2014. tampines greenridges part of first phase of development of tampines north new town s park west district, first district constructed in tampines north new town development.







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