If you’re a young couple looking at BTO options, there is little doubt that you would have heard of the new Tengah – Singapore’s first new HDB town in over 20 years since Punggol.

Located within the West Region, Tengah is bounded by Choa Chu Kang to the Northeast, and Jurong East and Jurong West to the South, Bukit Batok to the East, and the Western Water Catchment to its West and North. It was formerly a military restricted area since villagers there were resettled in the 1980s and 1990s.

The estate stretches for over 700ha, roughly the size of Bishan. HDB envisioned Tengah as a “Forest Town”, to be designed with green, sustainable and smart features, and will also feature the country’s first car-free town centre.

The first BTO project in Tengah, Plantation Grove, is the first of five housing districts to be developed in Tengah. Along with the