Sites for 1,180 homes enter Reserve List at Chuan Grove and Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road

Two sites with room for an estimated 1,180 homes have become available for developers to apply to activate for sale. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) released Chuan Grove and Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road on 27 October 2026, under the second-half 2026 Government Land Sales programme’s Reserve List. Their estimated capacities are 930 and 250 homes respectively.

For nearby households and buyers, there are two different changes to follow: a much larger potential residential development at Chuan Grove, and homes with first-storey commercial space—including a supermarket—at Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road. But the Reserve List release starts a developer-application process, rather than a public tender or a home-sales launch.

Two parcels with different neighbourhood roles

Chuan Grove is the larger site. It has a stated land area of 31,695.7 sq m, residential zoning and a 99-year lease. Its maximum gross floor area—the permitted amount of floor space—is 79,240 sq m, with an estimated yield of 930 homes.

Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road has a stated land area of 11,387.4 sq m and a 99-year lease, with maximum gross floor area of 23,914 sq m. Its zoning combines residential use with commercial space on the first storey, and URA estimates 250 homes.

Adding those estimates gives 1,180 homes, with Chuan Grove accounting for roughly four-fifths of the combined potential housing yield. That makes Chuan Grove the bigger housing-supply story, while Plymouth’s commercial requirement gives neighbours another practical reason to follow its progress. This is a comparison of planned capacity, not a count of homes under construction.

The figures have a defined boundary: URA says actual housing-unit counts may vary, and final land areas remain subject to cadastral survey, the formal survey establishing land boundaries. The estimates therefore describe the scale being offered to developers, rather than a settled development design.

The Raffles Town Club connection—and the supermarket

Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road has a longer public history. On 20 November 2023, the Singapore Land Authority and URA announced that the State lease for land then occupied by Raffles Town Club Pte. Ltd. at 1 Plymouth Avenue would not be renewed when it expired on 17 October 2026. The agencies identified future residential development as the intended use.

The agencies explained that redevelopment would make use of the site’s proximity to Stevens MRT interchange and support future housing demand. They also placed it within the effort to reuse previously developed land to meet land needs. The October 2026 release now identifies the available parcel as Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road.

The club’s name is useful historical context, but the 2023 announcement is a lease-expiry and intended-use record—not confirmation of completed vacation or a handover. It named Raffles Town Club Pte. Ltd. as the occupying operator; it did not identify the club as the seller of the new residential parcel.

For households, the most tangible detail in the current parcel conditions may be at street level. URA stipulates a maximum 2,500 sq m of commercial gross floor area, including a supermarket of at least 1,000 sq m. That establishes a supermarket requirement for the development, rather than merely leaving the possibility of shops open.

How a Reserve List site reaches public tender

The next move starts with a developer. Under URA’s Reserve List procedure, an applicant submits a sealed application stating the minimum price it is willing to bid if the land is put up for tender. Acceptance requires both a price acceptable to the Government and an applicant eligible to participate in land-sale tenders.

There is also a market-interest route. The Government will consider launching a site when more than one unrelated party has submitted minimum prices close to its reserve price within a reasonable period. This means the pathway is not limited to a single application meeting the Government’s price threshold.

Acceptance is followed by a further commitment. Within two weeks, the successful applicant must sign an agreement to bid at least its stated minimum price and pay a deposit of 3% of that minimum price, capped at S$5 million. If those steps are not completed, acceptance lapses.

Only after the agreement and deposit are in place does URA publicly announce successful activation. The applicant’s identity is not disclosed. Activation then leads into the tender process; the developer that triggered the process is not automatically the eventual buyer of the land.

The next announcement worth watching

For someone keeping either location on a future-home shortlist, the useful next milestone is public activation. That would show the site has moved beyond being available for application and into the land-sale pathway described by URA. A tender result and subsequent award are separate from the initial release.

For neighbours around Plymouth Avenue/Dunearn Road, later development details would make the supermarket requirement more concrete. For prospective buyers at either site, a future developer’s housing plans and sales announcement would answer a different question: what can actually be bought, and when. The present release supplies land conditions and estimated capacity, not those purchasing details.

The immediate consequence is therefore specific: developers can now seek to activate two parcels with substantial potential housing capacity. Whether either moves next depends on the Reserve List process turning that availability into a public tender.