Bottle Tree Park may have to go
Master tenant fails to get lease extended, but can take part in public tender
It shuttered its operations at Bottle Tree Village in Sembawang in February when its lease expired.
But now, the same master tenant may have to let its other operation, Bottle Tree Park in Yishun, go.
After eight years, Planar One & Associates' lease on the 7ha park opposite Yishun Stadium will run out in October, and although it appealed to the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) to extend its lease, the government agency has said no.
In response to queries by The Sunday Times, SLA said it puts up a property for public tender when a tenancy expires, 'for fairness and transparency'.
A Plea from Ground Up Initiative
Please Help Save Bottle Tree Park - It's indeed time to make our leaders hear our desire loud & clear - We want our leaders to exercise conservation & preservation in a Big Way; to be more appreciative of, put lots more value on, & give support to - special places & communities in Singapore. Our leaders have to realise the value of building heart-ware & soulfulness in a country & its people, are far beyond the value of building any commercial & concrete new structures that may bring lots more money. Places built with heart & soul, serve to pass on heart & soul to our society & its future generations. It's time our leaders see that cultivating appreciation & making mindful decisions to preserve special places like Bukit Brown, Bottle Park & Ground-Up Initiative's headquarters, are crucial to the progress & future of our people & nation.
Built over 4 years, with lots of sweat, love, heart, & soul, fully by volunteers, with eco-friendly & recycled materials, & a most amazing leadership of GUI & support of BTP - GUI's headquarters, together with the beautiful Yishun Bottle Tree Park are going to be torn down & destroyed completedly to make way for more construction in Aug.
Please help us give a most urgent & significant shout to our leaders - that we want them to see the true value of building our communities' heart-ware together, and & urge them to humbly learn from, & give support to truly special groups like Ground-Up Initiative, by letting them continue their important work at their meaningful & soulful GUI headquarters at Bottle Tree Park.
Built over 4 years, with lots of sweat, love, heart, & soul, fully by volunteers, with eco-friendly & recycled materials, & a most amazing leadership of GUI & support of BTP - GUI's headquarters, together with the beautiful Yishun Bottle Tree Park are going to be torn down & destroyed completedly to make way for more construction in Aug.
Please help us give a most urgent & significant shout to our leaders - that we want them to see the true value of building our communities' heart-ware together, and & urge them to humbly learn from, & give support to truly special groups like Ground-Up Initiative, by letting them continue their important work at their meaningful & soulful GUI headquarters at Bottle Tree Park.
Having visited GUI recently, I was quite surprised to hear the news of Bottle Tree Park.
Seriously, one bad news after another.
Maybe the suggestion from the Government will be:
'told you all already', go and take as many photos as possible and as you like.
Then one of the authorities will digitally document every fish in the ponds, every single tree.... everything.
Then we can bulldoze this and then sell it to the highest bidder.
Don't worry, this is just nostalgia you are feeling. We must be pragmatic and land is scarce in Singapore.
GUI have farmed this land and created many meaningful initiatives. Speak up for them before it is too late.
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