Former Raffles Town Club site offered for housing with a required supermarket

The former Raffles Town Club site could become a residential development of about 250 homes, with a supermarket required as part of its ground-floor commercial space. On 27 October 2026, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) made the Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road parcel available for application alongside a much larger site at Chuan Grove, estimated to accommodate 930 homes.

For buyers watching future projects, the distinction is more interesting than the combined home count: one parcel offers substantially more room for housing, while the former club land comes with a specific everyday amenity written into its conditions. Both are on the Government Land Sales Reserve List, so this is a step towards possible developments—not the opening of two condo sales launches.

What changes at the former club site?

The Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road parcel is the land at 1 Plymouth Avenue formerly occupied by Raffles Town Club Pte. Ltd. In their November 2023 announcement, the Singapore Land Authority and URA said the club’s lease would not be renewed and would expire on 17 October 2026, after which the land was to be returned to the State for future residential use.

The new offering gives that intended change a more concrete shape. URA lists an 11,387.4 sq m site on a 99-year lease, designated for residential development with commercial space at the first storey. Its maximum gross floor area—the total floor space allowed under the sale conditions—is 23,914 sq m.

The commercial component is particularly relevant to daily life. The conditions provide for up to 2,500 sq m of commercial floor area, including a supermarket of at least 1,000 sq m. That makes grocery provision part of the development requirements, rather than simply a possible feature in a future sales brochure.

For a household comparing eventual projects, this is a useful distinction: the planning conditions already establish a shopping function alongside the homes. They do not identify a supermarket operator or settle the retail line-up. The meaningful detail today is the required use, not a promised brand or shopping experience.

Chuan Grove offers a different scale

The newly available Chuan Grove parcel is designated for residential development, also on a 99-year lease. It covers 31,695.7 sq m, with maximum gross floor area of 79,240 sq m and an estimated yield of 930 homes.

Using the two published floor-area limits, Chuan Grove has approximately 3.3 times the allowable floor space of Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road: 79,240 divided by 23,914. That comparison helps explain the difference in project scale, although Plymouth’s figure includes its commercial component. It is not a comparison of apartment sizes or facilities.

For anyone who remembers an earlier Chuan Grove land sale, the parcel identity matters. URA released a different Chuan Grove residential site in 2025 with an estimated 505 homes. That tender was awarded in July 2025 to Sing Holdings Residential Pte. Ltd. and Sunway Developments Pte. Ltd.; its site area was 15,831.5 sq m. Those details belong to the earlier parcel, not this newly available 930-home site.

The shared street name therefore should not collapse two separate land-sale stories into one. When following future announcements, buyers can distinguish the October 2026 offering by its larger site area and estimated yield.

Why an available site is not yet a launch

A Reserve List offering gives developers an opportunity to apply for a site. Under URA’s process, an acceptable minimum-price application can trigger a public tender; URA can also launch a tender when it judges there is sufficient market interest. The application stage is therefore an important step between land being available and a developer securing it.

That distinction changes how buyers should read this announcement. The 930 and 250 figures describe potential housing capacity, not apartments currently available to reserve. The release establishes two possible additions to the future project pipeline, rather than a timetable for choosing units.

There is also a practical boundary to the published specifications: URA says final site areas remain subject to cadastral survey, which establishes the land boundaries, and actual dwelling counts may vary. The estimates are useful for understanding scale, but should not be treated as final inventories.

The next development to watch

The immediate question is whether either parcel moves from Reserve List availability to a tender. That is the next substantive milestone before an eventual project can become a real buying option.

Until then, the clearest comparison is already visible in the land conditions: Chuan Grove offers the larger potential housing development; Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road pairs a smaller estimated home count with required supermarket space. For buyers following new launches, those are two different propositions worth tracking—not yet two projects ready for unit selection.