Coconut kampongs to reclaimed coast
The name is traced to Malay bedoh, a mosque drum, or biduk, a small fishing boat; the river appears as “sune bodo” on de Erédia’s map of 1604. By the mid-19th century Siglap was known for coconut and fruit plantations and fishing kampongs. The 1950s brought private estates at Siglap — Frankel Estate and Opera Estate among them — and Siglap’s four-block HDB estate followed in 1964.
East Coast reclamation began in the mid-1960s, pushing the shore south. A sand-quarry lake became Bedok Reservoir, where NEWater was first produced in November 2000.
What the planning area covers
Its subzones are Bayshore, Bedok North, Bedok Reservoir, Bedok South, Frankel, Kaki Bukit, Kembangan and Siglap — so the landed streets of Frankel and Opera Estate and the eastern end of Joo Chiat Place are Bedok, not Katong.
New launches and land sales
- Sky Eden@Bedok — Frasers Property, 158 units in Bedok Central, launched in September 2022.
- Sceneca Residence — MCC Singapore, Ekovest and The Place Holdings, 268 units by Tanah Merah MRT, launched in January 2023.
- Straits at Joo Chiat — Roxy-Pacific, 16 freehold units, previewed in May 2024.
- Bagnall Haus — Roxy-Pacific, 113 freehold homes on Upper East Coast Road, launched in January 2025.
- Vela Bay — SingHaiyi and Chuan Capital, 515 units on a 99-year lease at Bayshore, launched in April 2026.
- Bedok Rise site — awarded by URA on 2 December 2025 to Bellis Residential, 99-year lease.
- Bayshore Drive site — a mixed commercial and residential site, awarded by URA on 20 July 2026 to Gemini Residential and Gemini Trustee, 99-year lease.
- New Upper Changi Road site — awarded by URA on 4 September 2026 to United Venture Development (Daisy) and CL Sapphire, 99-year lease.
Getting around
Open stations inside the boundary: Bedok, Kembangan and Tanah Merah on the East–West Line; Kaki Bukit, Bedok North and Bedok Reservoir on the Downtown Line; and Siglap and Bayshore on the Thomson–East Coast Line. Bedok South and Sungei Bedok open with the line’s fifth stage, which LTA expects in the second half of 2026.
Schools with pages here include Temasek Primary, St. Stephen’s School, Opera Estate Primary and Red Swastika School.
Who manages the buildings here
A4 International (19), Chambers Property Management Services (18), Smart Property Management (18) manage the most developments inside the boundary. Nearly a quarter of the developments here have no managing agent on record — many are small blocks run by their own council. Each building page lists its own office contact.
What to have ready
The management office will ask for the MCST number and your unit. Public carparks with live lot counts are on the carparks page; see also the District 16 and District 15 pages.
Sources: URA Master Plan 2019 planning area and subzone boundaries (data.gov.sg); NLB Infopedia (Bedok); NLB Infopedia (Siglap); NHB Bedok Heritage Trail; EdgeProp (Sky Eden@Bedok); EdgeProp (Sceneca Residence); EdgeProp (Straits at Joo Chiat); EdgeProp (Bagnall Haus); EdgeProp (Vela Bay); URA (Bedok Rise award); URA (Bayshore Drive award); URA (New Upper Changi Road award); LTA (TEL Stage 5 timing). Buildings are listed when their coordinate falls inside URA’s boundary for the planning area; prices are left out because they change.
