Urban design guidelines, which play a key role in creating attractive and liveable areas, vary from site to site and over time in tandem with planning needs. Appropriate additional design guidelines will be imposed on new development sites along the East Coast Parkway (ECP) to ensure the integration of the new buildings with the surroundings. The move comes as the ECP corridor becomes more developed with higher-density developments as described by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).

The guidelines may feature well-integrated and lushly planted sky terraces to contribute to the sense of pervasive greenery along this major gateway corridor. The Siglap Road plot of the upcoming Seaside Residences is the first government land sales site along the ECP to face these additional design guidelines.

Seaside Residences developer Frasers Centrepoint Singapore announced that the additional design requirements included an “urban window” of at least 45m, meaning there should be a 45m-wide no-build zone through the middle portion of the site.

Another guideline called for greenery and landscaping offered at the development to be equivalent in area to 65 per cent of the site area. These can include sky terraces and roof gardens.

The developer said each pair of residential towers will be spaced 45m apart, thereby meeting the urban window requirement. It has also reduced the number of units to be built at Seaside Residences by about 10 per cent to 843.