SINGAPORE: The government intends to gazette the 38 Oxley Road site – the family home of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew – as a national monument, saying it will balance the need to preserve a location of historic significance with respect for Mr Lee’s wishes for privacy.
Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth David Neo said on Monday (Nov 3) that he will gazette the site after considering recommendations from the National Heritage Board (NHB) and its Preservation of Sites and Monuments Advisory Board, which assessed the site as worthy of preservation.
If the site is preserved and acquired, it will be converted into a public space, with one possible outcome being a heritage park, said NHB and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). This means the site cannot be redeveloped for residential, commercial or other private uses.
