No Go for Bungalow

A couple went to High Court after URA rejected their application to convert a semi-D hse into a bungalow. The court dismissed their appeal and referred to a 2002 URA order that imposed restrictions on the redevelopment of semi-D hse.

The couple's hse sits on a 419 sqm plot, but the hse which it is attached to, has only 244.5 sqm of land. Thus their redevelopment would lead to a lop-sided hse which the 2002 circular was drafted to prevent such anomaly. Therefore the adjoining semi-D must also be on a >=400 sqm land and width of >=10m such that it can be developed into another detached hse, only then the bungalow will be allowed to erect.

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