Yesterday we learned that in the name of progress, 40-year-old Jurong Country Club will be acquired by the government next year and turned into the terminus of the upcoming Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail."The Singapore Land Authority has said the club will not be relocated, and compensation will be based on market value, as at the date of acquisition," reports Nur Afifah Ariffin on Channel NewsAsia.
The club's general manager wasn't informed until 10am yesterday, and it's members not until 2pm when JCC posted an official notice at the reception area and started sending emails to its 2,800 members.
The club has tennis and squash courts, a swimming pool and gym. But these are not the facilities that members paying anything from SGD9,000 a year are going to miss — it's the 18-hole golf course that was remodelled three years ago, funded by members' contributions."It is a big sum of money and all members have contributed to this upgrading. So I think it is not fair to compensate us merely on the land cost alone," member Richard Ng tells Channel NewsAsia.
We hear you.
JCC currently occupies 67 hectares, but only 20 per cent will be occuped by the High Speed Rail terminus. The rest will be redeveloped for mixed-used developments in a bid to turn this part of town into the next central business district.
Photo: Jurong Country Club
Yesterday we learned that in the name of progress, 40-year-old Jurong Country Club will be acquired by the government next year and turned into the terminus of the upcoming Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail."The Singapore Land Authority has said the club will not be relocated, and compensation will be based on market value, as at the date of acquisition," reports Nur Afifah Ariffin on Channel NewsAsia.
The club's general manager wasn't informed until 10am yesterday, and it's members not until 2pm when JCC posted an official notice at the reception area and started sending emails to its 2,800 members.
The club has tennis and squash courts, a swimming pool and gym. But these are not the facilities that members paying anything from SGD9,000 a year are going to miss — it's the 18-hole golf course that was remodelled three years ago, funded by members' contributions."It is a big sum of money and all members have contributed to this upgrading. So I think it is not fair to compensate us merely on the land cost alone," member Richard Ng tells Channel NewsAsia.
We hear you.
JCC currently occupies 67 hectares, but only 20 per cent will be occuped by the High Speed Rail terminus. The rest will be redeveloped for mixed-used developments in a bid to turn this part of town into the next central business district.
Photo: Jurong Country Club