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The site at 38 Oxley Road is Singapore\u2019s 77th national monument<\/span>.<\/p>\n The late Mr Lee had on several occasions publicly expressed his wish for the house to be demolished after his death.<\/p>\n The fate of the house would become the source of dispute among his children – Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Dr Lee Wei Ling and Mr Lee Hsien Yang – following his death in 2015.<\/p>\n With matters spilling into the public sphere, then Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made a ministerial statement in parliament in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n A ministerial committee released a report in April 2018 with three proposals – retaining the house in whole; retaining just the historic basement dining room; or allowing demolition. The report made no recommendations and noted “there (was) no need to make a decision on the property” at the time, as Dr Lee Wei Ling was still living there.<\/p>\n After Dr Lee\u2019s passing in October 2024, the Urban Redevelopment Authority received an application from Mr Lee Hsien Yang to demolish the building at 38 Oxley Road.<\/p>\n In the same month, the NHB launched a formal assessment of the site to determine if it was worthy of preservation.<\/p>\n In its assessment, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments Advisory Board assessed the site as having “strong national significance worthy of preservation as a national monument”, describing it as a foundational part of Singapore’s independence that is “not represented by any other site or monument”.<\/p>\n Mr Lee Hsien Yang criticised the announcement. In a Facebook post on Nov 3, 2025, he wrote that the ruling government had \u201cchosen to trample on Lee Kuan Yew\u2019s unwavering wish to demolish his private house\u201d.<\/p>\n NHB reviewed his objection letter and maintained its recommendation that the site was worthy of preservation as a national monument for its historic significance and national importance.<\/p>\n Then-Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth David Neo said on Nov 6, 2025, that the preservation of the site was not about memorialising any single leader<\/span>, but safeguarding Singapore’s history for future generations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The site at 38 Oxley Road is Singapore\u2019s 77th national monument. The late Mr Lee had on several occasions publicly expressed his wish for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Vpu7W6x4--\/c_crop,h_1685,w_2996,x_0,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/03\/38_oxley_road_1.jpg?itok=QLyNM1je","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4679,19668,7845,7937,341,1197,6743,1013],"class_list":["post-73151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-acquisition","tag-completes","tag-government","tag-oxley","tag-possession","tag-road","tag-site","tag-takes","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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