- Redevelopment of Singapore’s Heritage Sites for A New Generation of Sustainable Industrial Parks   2921 kb by    Duy, Nguyen Hoang Duc | nguyenhoang.dd@jtc.gov.sg    Short Outline As Singapore does not have the luxury of exploiting its remaining greenfield sites for sprawling industrial development, the city-state has had to turn to its brownfield heritage sites as new sources of land for the next generation of industrial parks. Abstract Singapore has emerged as a fully-developed economy in little over 40 years despite her limited land resources in large part due to precise and balanced planning. Moving forwards, in order to remain competitive within the changing global economy, the city-state must be able to pursue continued economic growth while also managing its effects on both the built and un-built environments. As such, it is imperative for Singapore to find a new development path where accelerating industrial development can be accomplished in tandem with the conservation of her environmental and historical heritage. As Singapore does not have the luxury of exploiting its remaining greenfield sites for sprawling industrial development, the city-state has even had to turn to its brownfield heritage sites as new sources of land for the next generation of industrial parks. This paper will discuss one of the best practices of JTC Corporation’s sustainable brownfield redevelopments – the Seletar Aerospace Park (SAP). Previously used as a World War II British Royal Air Force base, the redevelopment site is rich in natural and historical heritage. The primary goal of the SAP masterplan has been to recycle the land and return the abandoned and underutilised site back to its fullest potential as assets to the community and the economy. Careful and sensitive planning has resulted in a masterplan where heritage trees and innovative green infrastructure like gravel filtration systems play host to the queen bees of the aerospace industry. In addition, adaptive reuse of historical military barracks has also been safeguarded to sit next to high-tech aerospace plants. This paper will elaborate on how the planning principles employed at SAP have gone towards creating a tightly-knit integrated aerospace business eco-system sitting comfortably within a preserved urban heritage. Keywords brownfield,redevelopment, heritage, industrial park Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2012: Fast Forward: Planning in a (hyper) dynamic urban context   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper