HDB details plans for three new housing districts

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The Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Tuesday unveiled detailed plans for the first housing projects in Bidadari and Tampines North, as well as for Punggol Northshore - one of seven new waterfront housing districts in Punggol.

Punggol's Northshore District will be the next one to be developed after the Matilda District. It will offer about 6,000 new flats, with the first project slated to be launched in 2015.

New technologies will be employed to make the district "smart and sustainable". In fact, Northshore will be the first district to test-bed smart technologies in public housing.

It will feature:

• intelligent car parks (which automatically increase the number of available lots during non-peak hours for visitors, as residents with season parking tickets are out in the day)
• smart lighting (lighting with sensors which will be reduced in common areas with little or no human traffic detected), and
• smart waste management (whose sensors will monitor waste disposal patterns before the data is analysed to optimise the deployment of resources needed for waste collection)