Lower Density for Strata Landed Homes

URA is reinstating an old rule to strata-titled landed homes, aka cluster homes, as developers tend to cram as many homes onto a plot as possible, leading to congestion problem and affecting quality of the living environment.

wef 3 Feb 09, a cap to limit the number of allowable units in strata landed housing will be re-introduced. This will be based on a min plot size/unit which is similar to conventional landed homes. Thus developers will have to build fewer strata landed units, but each unit can be bigger in size.

A comparison of the # of units on 10k sqm b4 and after the change of rules:
Strata terrace: 80 vs 66 (20% bigger in size)
Strata semi-D: 72 vs 50 (45% bigger in size)
Strata bungalow: 60 vs 25 (2.4x bigger in size)

Strata-bungalows and semi-D may eventually disappear as such houses are bigger and thus less affordable. Typically these homes cost 10 - 20% less than conventional landed homes under current rules.

* URA-Strata , AsiaOne-Strata *