Mr Lee Kuan Yew wanted Oxley Road home demolished

[Spidey10]

On 10/15/2024 at 4:17 PM, Tianmo said:

As far as public awareness goes, the house is not gazetted yet, so smash before it gets there. After gazette, cannot do anything, before that can smash at will, no need to restore.

 

Quickly smash now …

[Volvobrick]

On 10/15/2024 at 11:39 AM, SGMCF328 said:

The real show is about to start.

 

Lee Hsien Yang says he will apply for demolition of 38 Oxley Road

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/38-oxley-road-lee-hsien-yang-demolition-application-lee-kuan-yew-4678556

SINGAPORE: Mr Lee Hsien Yang said on Tuesday (Oct 15) that he will apply to demolish the house at 38 Oxley Road, the former home of his father and founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

The house was Mr Lee Kuan Yew's home from the mid-1940s until his death in 2015, and was also the home of his daughter, Dr Lee Wei Ling, who died last week.

In a Facebook post, Mr Lee Hsien Yang said he would apply to demolish the house in accordance with his parents' wishes. He intends to build a small home on the site subsequently, he said.

"To honour my parents' last wishes, I am applying to demolish the house at 38 Oxley Road and thereafter to build a small private dwelling, to be held within the family in perpetuity," he said.

Mr Lee Hsien Yang said that he is "the sole legal owner of 38 Oxley Road" and, following his sister's death, "the only living executor" of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's estate.

"In his will, he wished for the house to be demolished 'immediately after' Wei Ling moved out of the house. It is my duty to carry out his wishes to the fullest extent of the law," he said.

He also noted that his brother, Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong, had said in parliament in 2015 that "it would be up to 'the government of the day' to decide whether to allow (the house's) demolition", referring to a point in time when Dr Lee was no longer living there.

"It has been nine years. That day is today," said Mr Lee Hsien Yang.

"build a small private dwelling"

Hope got enough garden space for MSW durian trees and better still fruits drop onto the pavement outside!

 

[Beregond]

On 10/15/2024 at 4:14 PM, Tianmo said:

You try. 

Summon will queue up for you.

 

As long all the proper paper work and procedures are being follow.

I dun see any reason lsy cannot get his wish.

Singapore is a rule base country after all. 

 

[inlinesix]

On 10/15/2024 at 5:23 PM, Beregond said:

As long all the proper paper work and procedures are being follow.

I dun see any reason lsy cannot get his wish.

Singapore is a rule base country after all. 

URA still can reject it because of its heritage value.

[Throttle2]

 

If LKY was alive and he applied for demolition, would he be rejected??

now that he is dead, the rightful owner applys for demolition, should it be any different?

 

 

[SGMCF328]

Lai liao lai liao. Hahahaha

Oxley Rd house: Govt to ‘carefully consider’ issues, including Lee Hsien Yang’s application to demolish

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/lee-hsien-yang-will-apply-for-oxley-road-house-to-be-demolished

SINGAPORE – Mr Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest child of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, said he will be applying to demolish his family’s house at 38 Oxley Road to build a small private dwelling.

In a Facebook post on Oct 15, Mr Lee Hsien Yang, who is the younger brother of Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said he intends for the dwelling to then “be held within the family in perpetuity”.

The authorities have not received any application in respect to the house, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) said in a joint statement on the same day, in response to queries.

Separately, the Ministry of National Development (MND) said it has taken note of Mr Lee Hsien Yang’s post.

“(The) Government will carefully consider issues related to the property in due course, taking into account Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes and the public interest, including considering any applications with regard to the property,” said an MND spokesman.

To demolish the house at 38 Oxley Road, Mr Lee Hsien Yang requires approval for building works from the BCA, as well as planning permission from the URA.

 

[Sosaria]

On 10/15/2024 at 12:21 PM, Tianmo said:

If not approve, he can always just engaged a few Bangladesh remotely, let them inside the house and give order, "Bangladesh hammer ready, Bangladesh watch your front, Bangladesh smash!" 

Demolished does not always means must tear down the whole thing, demolish everything inside is also demolish leh.

 

Lao Lee was very particular about not letting his house be turned into some tourist attraction, with hordes of people tramping in and out of what was once his private spaces.

[Volvobrick]

On 10/15/2024 at 6:28 PM, Sosaria said:

Lao Lee was very particular about not letting his house be turned into some tourist attraction, with hordes of people tramping in and out of what was once his private spaces.

But never expected his kah kia in white to have other thoughts and jammed his wish.

 

[Tianmo]

On 10/15/2024 at 5:13 PM, Volvobrick said:

"build a small private dwelling"

Hope got enough garden space for MSW durian trees and better still fruits drop onto the pavement outside!

 

I think now cannot plant all MSW, if not later PRC cheap ones come, need to hug the MSW tree and cry liao.  Maybe plant some tupai king to hedge.

 

[inlinesix]

On 10/15/2024 at 6:51 PM, Volvobrick said:

But never expected his kah kia in white to have other thoughts and jammed his wish.

 

Rather than kah Kia, his Tua Kia jammed his wish

[Volvobrick]

On 10/15/2024 at 8:11 PM, inlinesix said:

Rather than kah Kia, his Tua Kia jammed his wish

I more diplomatic in my language. 

[mersaylee]

On 10/15/2024 at 8:11 PM, inlinesix said:

Rather than kah Kia, his Tua Kia jammed his wish

The grand plan is to pave the way for the next era of lixiaoloong to emerge...in flipflop...😅

[Ahwhye]

lai lai, come guess whose interest is "the public interest".....

 

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“(The) Government will carefully consider issues related to the property in due course, taking into account Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s wishes and the public interest, including considering any applications with regard to the property,” said an MND spokesman.

 

[13177]

On 10/15/2024 at 6:28 PM, Sosaria said:

Lao Lee was very particular about not letting his house be turned into some tourist attraction, with hordes of people tramping in and out of what was once his private spaces.

Died liao still so particular and calculative on his house? 😅 Thought people always say after a person died liao, you have no more or cannot control on how people deal with the things you owned on the earth?!

Anyway, will they do a one time final open house to let people tramping in and out of his house before demolish ah? Lol.

Edited October 15 by 13177

[Sosaria]

On 10/15/2024 at 9:17 PM, Ahwhye said:

lai lai, come guess whose interest is "the public interest".....

 

 

Public is interested to buy tickets to go in and see his house interior design and furniture look like what

Very interested.

[Benarsenal]

On 10/15/2024 at 4:12 PM, Spidey10 said:

Aiyoh   I thot land is under my name, I can do whatever I want with the land…. Demolish the building and leave it empty and flat land can ah?

This is SG. If Govt say cannot, means cannot. You can only LL.

[Benarsenal]

On 10/15/2024 at 5:23 PM, Beregond said:

As long all the proper paper work and procedures are being follow.

I dun see any reason lsy cannot get his wish.

Singapore is a rule base country after all. 

 

If Govt decide to gazette it for conservation, you cannot anyhow touch it, even if you are the legal owner.

That is how SG works.

[TangoCharlie]

Moving the basement to founders memorial will be a good compromise. 

Whatever imagined political mileage from the preserving 38 has been negated by the ministerial committee and the public spat that followed.