Tanglin Halt Market and Tanglin Halt Food Centre Will be demolished Soon And Make Way For Redevelopment by 2021
Some sad news has come as the two long standing hawker centres in the Queenstown area will be demolished on the end of 2021 to make way for redevelopment which is the Tanglin Halt Market and Tanglin Halt Food Centre. A total of 31 blocks of flats in Tanglin Halt have been slated to be torn down under the Housing Board’s Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers).
Both the two hawker centres have plenty of great food gems such as the Braised Duck noodles stall in Tanglin Halt Market which started out as a street stall which were run since 1969. Famous Wei Yi Laksa which is in the same hawker centre. And for the Tanglin Halt Food Centre is the place where you can find the all time favourites Chef Hainanese Western Food and Queenstown Longtong.
This is not the first time too for Tanglin Halt site was selected for a SERS Project as the previous project in January 2003 as the government announced its SERS plan for block 50 to 54 at Tanglin Halt where homeowners were given the option to purchase flats at block 89 to 91 which they moved in by 2008.
This current SERS project affected the block 24 to 38 and 40 to 45 at Tanglin Halt where a lot of long time resident have to sticks and left, as there are around 3,480 household were slated to be moving into new flats in nearby Margaret Drive, Dawson Road and Strathmore Avenue by 2020. The 157 market and hawker stalls, 50 shops and four eating houses have been affected by this project in total.
