政府将在中期内，在中央商业区以外的地方开发更多商业与就业中心，把工作和主要设施带到住家附近。到了2030年，市区外主要区域中心将会提供至少1300万平方公尺的商业面积。
未来市区外将发展更多商业与就业中心，让新加坡人能享受生活、工作和康乐集于一处的便利。
《土地资源规划书》透露，政府将在中期内，在中央商业区以外的地方开发更多商业与就业中心，把工作和主要设施带到住家附近。到了2030年，市区外主要区域中心将会提供至少1300万平方公尺的商业面积。
这样一来，今天繁忙时段大量人流涌向市区的情况将得到缓解，进而减轻公共交通和道路的负荷，也能减少新加坡人上下班时的舟车劳顿。
北部廊道主打创新工业
我国的北部和南部将各形成一个崭新的区域。在北部，兀兰、三巴旺、实里达区域中心，以及榜鹅创意与学习园地将构成一个北岸创新廊道（North Coast Innovation Corridor）。这个廊道将发展创意工业、设计和新科技等行业。
长远来说，实里达区域中心有潜力发展成一个大型枢纽，面积是目前淡滨尼区域中心的两倍。它与实里达航空园毗邻，将为各类培训和科研工作提供新空间。它和实里达航空园也会成为北部和东北部的重要就业中心。
兀兰区域中心则会配合新的汤申地铁线和南北高速公路发展，扩大成一个主要商业枢纽。兀兰和盛港西会发展新的工业区，榜鹅和实龙岗则会有小型区域中心，提供额外的商业面积。
南部廊道规划濒水市区
北岸创新廊道的发展预计在未来10至15年逐步进行，南部濒水市区则要等到2027年港口租约到期后才展开。新领域的开发会与人口增长的速度配合，政府计划先做好基础设施发展准备，一旦市场有需求，企业就能迅速迁入。
现有市区外的商业中心也会继续发展。例如巴耶利峇区域中心完全发展起来后，会有额外50万平方米的商业空间，可作为办公室、酒店和零售店面。
已经在重点开发的裕廊湖区和纬壹科技城（One-North）也会更加生机勃勃，占地360公顷的裕廊湖区将会是市中心以外的最大商业与区域中心，未来规模是淡滨尼区域中心的两倍半。
HSR房地产经纪公司特别顾问韩永利受访时认为，未来区域性商业区会越来越受欢迎。他说：“市区外商业用地的租金比市区低20％至30％，近年来这些地区的交通更便利，周边其他设施也发展起来，很多公司已经逐步搬离市区。人力部和国家发展部等政府部门从市区搬迁到区域中心，也能起到带动作用。”
欣乐国际（SLP）执行董事麦俊荣认为，新的商业区将为新行业提供空间，支持轻工业、制造业，以及零售、教育和医疗等行业，为区域内的居民提供便利；它不会取代以金融业为主的中央商业区，不过一些金融业的后端部门也会搬到那里去。
MARKET TODAY:Singapore offers a glimpse of its future
Come 2030, it'll be bigger, with commercial centres spread out and 700,000 new homes
Singapore's current population of about 5.3 million live on 71,400 ha of land. By 2030, some 76,600 ha could be available - PHOTO: SPH[SINGAPORE] A couple of days after projecting that the population could rise to upto 6.9 million by 2030, the government yesterday revealed how they might be accommodated without Singapore feeling the squeeze.
Reclamation alone will raise the land area by up to 5,200 hectares or 7.3 per cent - much of it in Tuas Port, Pulau Tekong and Jurong Island. Some of the existing 10,000 ha stock of reserve land will be tapped. Old industrial areas and some golf courses will be recycled to achieve higher land productivity. Infrastructure permitting, land use can be intensified.
Singapore's current population of about 5.3 million live on 71,400 ha of land. By 2030, some 76,600 ha could be available.
Analysts have already started debating the impact that this Land Use Plan would have on the property market. The government highlighted that the pace at which land will be rolled out may depend on market conditions.
National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said: "As planners, our mantra is . . . 'Prepare for the worst but hope for the best'. . . .The figure 6.9 looks aggressive. But from planners' point of view, we need aggressive figures and projections so that we can prepare for the worst. The worst is if we plan for the best then if the worst comes, then we will be under-providing, as what has happened in the last few years."
Savills Singapore research head Alan Cheong put it this way: "This is only a spatial plan. To complete the jigsaw . . . would require similar plans from the trade and industry, and finance ministries.
"What may be ideal is for the market to know what is the targeted long-term asset and price inflation. It would then send to both policymakers and developers a signal if the market is over or under-speeding. In other words, besides a roadmap, we may need a speed limit for a safer property highway, benefiting both developers and policymakers."
The proportion of Singapore's projected land area in 2030 that will be used for housing will be 17 per cent, up from around 14 per cent currently. Industry and commerce's share of Singapore's land supply too will rise from roughly 13 per cent to 17 per cent to power Singapore' economic growth.
The Marina Bay area can support the expansion of the Central Business District by at least another one million square metres gross floor area of prime office space. Currently, the Central Area which includes the CBD (which in turn includes Marina Bay) has six million sq m of prime office space. There will be capacity to increase the figure to more than 11 milion sq m by 2030 in the Central Area - if there is demand. Singapore will develop a "North Coast Innovation Corridor" spanning Woodlands Regional Centre, Sembawang, the future Seletar Regional Centre, and the learning corridor and creative cluster in Punggol.
To support the growth of the manufacturing sector, sufficient land will be set aside in Woodlands, Sengkang West, Seletar, Lorong Halus, Pasir Ris and Tuas. By 2030, Singapore will also develop more commercial centres outside the city, amounting to 13 million sq m to provide more employment and amenities close to where people live.
Cushman & Wakefield country manager (Singapore) Toby Dodd said: "Bringing more jobs to the regional centres and fringe centres will help ease the load on transport infrastructure and support business to operate in more efficient environments."
Colliers International managing director Dennis Yeo suggests that "there's a need to survey how businesses are using industrial space".
"Given Singapore's upward movement in the manufacturing chain, where less of the hard manufacturing is done here, we should relook the definition of Business 1 use. We also need more strata economical office units for some of the the new citizens from Asia setting up businesses here.
"If we don't take these factors into consideration, what we may be planning could be a mismatch with what the market needs.".
As part of the plans to boost the island's stock of homes by 700,000 units to 1.9 million by 2030 to support a rising population, the Republic is planning for new housing estates in the Central Region - at the former Bukit Turf Club, Kallang Riverside, the waterfront area around Keppel, and Bukit Brown.
In the longer term, a "Southern Waterfront City" with commercial and housing projects will be developed after the existing container port facilities in the City Terminals and Pasir Panjang Terminal are consolidated and relocated to 1,700 ha of reclaimed land in Tuas Port. This will be one of three major land reclamation sites, along with Pulau Tekong (2,000 ha) and Jurong Island (600 ha). Existing military training areas across the island will be moved to the expanded Pulau Tekong, freeing up land for other uses such as housing.
Increased connectivity is generally seen as a plus factor for property values.
"With the increased rail and transport connectivity and suburban commercial and business nodes, living even in far-flung areas would no longer be inconvenient as there will be supporting amenities and moving around would not be a hassle," said Jones Lang LaSalle national director Ong Teck Hui.
"The implication is that there would be a levelling-up of property values especially in the suburbs, which has increased in vibrancy in recent times and will be even more vibrant in the future. The successful formula of transportation convenience and amenities that has worked well in making suburban homes attractive will be taken one step further in the future."
