Bukit Batok New Town
| Bukit Batok New Town | | Total area: | 8.02 km² |
| Residential area: | 2.91 km² |
| Dwelling units: | 32,998 |
| Projected ultimate: | 47,000 |
| Population: | 113,100 |
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Top view of Bukit Batok West. |
Bukit Batok New Town is a
new town located in Singapore in the region of
Bukit Batok. For
urban planning purposes, it is encompassed by the
Bukit Batok Planning Area.
The shopping complex
West Mall was opened in mid-1998. Developed by Alprop Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between the
United Industrial Corporation (
UIC) and
Singapore Land, it has 5 storeys, net lettable area of 192,000 sq ft and three basement car parks. It was built at a cost of
$170
million.
West Mall has many amenities and shops such as an Eng Wah cineplex with 6 screens, a post office, Popular bookstore, a food court, Harvey Norman (electrical goods), a national library, fast food restaurants and a Shop N Save supermarket.
The Bukit Batok interchange is of moderate size and wholly used by SMRT Buses, part of
SMRT Corporation. The interchange and most of the services were previously operated by SBS Buses, the precursor of
SBS Transit, until 1999/2000; SBS Transit still has a bus depot in Bukit Batok. The following bus services are in operation:
*Feeder services
**941 (previously 361) - serving Bukit Batok West avenues 3,6,8
**945 (previously 365) - serving Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, West Avenue 5 (the
Bukit Gombak neighbourhood)
**947 (previously 367) - serving Bukit Batok West avenues 2,4,7
*Trunk services
**61 - to
Eunos, via Toh Yi,
Clementi, Queensway, Kallang
**77 - to Marina Centre, via Toh Yi,
Bukit Timah,
Holland Road, Orchard Road
**106 - to Marina Centre, via Clementi, Holland Road, Orchard Road
**173 - a loop service, past Hillview, Toh Tuck, Clementi
**177 - to
Bukit Panjang, serves the
Ministry of Defence headquarters in Bukit Gombak
**189 - to
Kent Ridge, via Clementi, West Coast
**852 - to
Yishun, via Upper Bukit Timah, Bukit Timah, Ang Mo Kio
In addition, the following bus services pass through parts of Bukit Batok:
*
SBS Transit**66 (
Jurong East-
Bedok)
**157 (
Boon Lay-
Toa Payoh)
**174 (
Boon Lay-New Bridge Road)
**506 (
Jurong East-
Bedok, express service)
*SMRT Buses
**176 (
Bukit Panjang-
Bukit Merah)
**178 (
Woodlands-
Boon Lay)
**187 (
Woodlands-
Jurong East)
**188 (
Choa Chu Kang-HarbourFront)
**963 (
Woodlands-
HarbourFront)
**970 (
Bukit Panjang-
Shenton Way)
**985 (
Choa Chu Kang-
Geylang Lorong 1)
**NR8 (
Marina Centre loop service, late nights on Fridays, Saturdays and public holiday eves)
There are several institutions for education in Bukit Batok:
*Primary schools
**
Bukit View Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Mdm. Jenny S. G. Law.
**
Dazhong Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Mr. Stephen Lu Peng Hoong.
**
Hong Kah Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Ms. Shanti D/O Govindan.
**
Keming Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Mr. Michel Saw Mung Seong.
**
Lianhua Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Ms. Cecilia Ng.
**
Princess Elizabeth Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Mrs. Mary Ngiam Siew Wah.
**
St. Anthony's Primary School is a government
primary school. The current principal is Mr. Thomas Koh Kian Seng.
*Secondary schools
**
Bukit Batok Secondary School is a government
secondary school The current principal is Mdm Lee Lee Sia Rosa.
**
Bukit View Secondary School is a government
secondary school. The current principal is Mdm Tan Lay Hong.
**
Dunearn Secondary School**
Hillgrove Secondary School is a government
secondary school. The current principal is Mrs. Yeow Lee Lin.
**
Swiss Cottage Secondary School**
Yusof Ishak Secondary School is a government
secondary school. The school is named after Singapore's first president,
Inche Yusuf bin Ishak. The current principal is Mdm. Doris Ong Bee Lian.
*Higher institutions of learning
**
ITE West Bukit Batok
**Singapore International Hotel and Tourism Education Centre (SHATEC)
The Millennia Institute, formed from the merger of the Jurong and Outram
Centralised Institutes (CI), will be moving to a new campus off Bukit Batok West Avenue 3 in September 2006.
*Ar-Raudhah mosque
*Church of St. Mary of the Angles
*Guilin combined temple
*Hock Thong temple
*Hoon Lam Tua Peh Kong temple
*Ling Hong Tong temple
*Sattha Puchaniyaram Buddhist temple
*See Tien Foh combined temple
*Tong Tien Kung temple
*Wu Lui Sien Sze temple
*Zu-Lin temple
A church is currently under construction near the intersection of West Avenue 4 and 7.
The Bukit Batok
swimming complex is located off East Avenue 6. There are many parks in the neighbourhood, including the Bukit Batok Town Park (often considered part of
Bukit Gombak) and the Bukit Batok Nature Park.
The CDANS Bukit Batok Country Club, for reservist members of the Civil Defence forces and their families, was opened in 1998. It offers a golf driving range, swimming pool, bowling alley and sports facilities for relatively affordable prices. The Civil Service Bukit Batok Clubhouse offering similar recreational facilities to civil servants and their families and the public is located near the Bukit Batok Town Centre, and was opened on 1 Mar 2006.
The jurisdiction of Bukit Batok is shared by the
Jurong Group Representation Constituency (Jurong GRC), which has an office at Bukit Batok Central and manages much of Bukit Batok; and
Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency (Hong Kah GRC), which manages areas north of Bukit Batok West Avenue 3 and Bukit Batok Central. There are four
members of Parliament, two from each GRC, representing various areas in Bukit Batok.
Bukit Batok was a single-member constituency by itself in the
1991 general elections and before. It was later mainly subsumed into the Hong Kah GRC. As of 2001, Bukit Batok, as mentioned above, was mainly within the Jurong GRC, with the rest in Hong Kah GRC. In Jurong GRC the ruling party
PAP slate comprising
Lim Boon Heng,
Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Halimah binte Yacob, Ong Chit Chung, and
Tharman Shanmugaratnam got 79.8% of the vote to defeat a
SDP slate led by their secretary-general
Chee Soon Juan. Currently Ong represents the Bukit Batok division and Halimah the Bukit Batok East division. These areas include Bukit Batok Central, the MRT station etc.
In the same elections in 2001, the PAP slate comprising Yeo Cheow Tong, John Chen Seow Phun, Ahmad Khalis bin Abdul Ghani, Ang Mong Seng and
Amy Khor Lean Suan defeated a SDP slate with 79.7% of the vote in Hong Kah. Ang now represents the Bukit Gombak division, roughly the
Bukit Gombak and Hillview neighbourhoods. Khor represents the Hong Kah North division, HDB apartment blocks in areas roughly bordered by Bukit Batok Road and Bukit Batok West avenues 2, 5 and 7.
*
NHG Bukit Batok Polyclinic*
Bukit Batok Driving Centre*
CDANS Country Club facilities*
Civil Service Club (CSC)*
Singapore International Hotel and Tourism Education Centre (SHATEC)
