From Reformatory Road to new town
Clementi takes its name from Clementi Road, which marks the town’s eastern edge. It was Reformatory Road until the Rural Board decided to rename it on 16 October 1947; the name is generally believed to honour Cecil Clementi Smith, governor from 1887 to 1893, rather than his nephew Cecil Clementi, governor from 1930 to 1934. The land was swamp and hills — Oyster Hill, Chota Hill, Garam Hill — with villages such as Kampong Sungei Pandan, recorded in 1910.
Clementi was HDB’s eighth new town, built mainly between 1975 and 1979. More than 800 villagers were resettled, and swamps beside today’s West Coast Park were filled with earth from the town’s northern hills. Clementi Mall opened in May 2011.
What the planning area covers
URA’s nine subzones here are Clementi Central, Clementi North, Clementi West, Clementi Woods, Faber, Pandan, Sunset Way, Toh Tuck and West Coast. Several campuses sit just outside: NUS, Singapore Polytechnic and Dover are in Queenstown, and Ngee Ann Polytechnic and the Pine Grove launches are in the Bukit Timah planning area.
New launches and land sales
- Elta — MCL Land and CSC Land Group, 501 units on a 99-year lease at Clementi Avenue 1, launched in February 2025. URA awarded the site on 15 November 2023 to CSC Land Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and Caspian Residential 3 Pte. Ltd.
- Faber Residence — GuocoLand with Hong Leong Holdings and TID, 399 units on a 99-year lease on Faber Walk, launched in October 2025. The site was awarded on 26 November 2024 to GuocoLand (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., TID Residential Pte. Ltd. and Intrepid Investments Pte. Ltd.
Getting around
Clementi on the East–West Line is the town’s station. The Cross Island Line’s second phase will add an interchange at Clementi and a station on West Coast Road; LTA targets passenger service in 2032.
Schools with pages here include Nan Hua Primary, Pei Tong Primary, Qifa Primary and Clementi Primary.
Who manages the buildings here
Chambers Property Management Services (5), Knight Frank Property & Facilities Management (3) manage the most developments inside the boundary. About one in seven 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 5 page.
Sources: URA Master Plan 2019 planning area and subzone boundaries (data.gov.sg); NLB Infopedia (Clementi); Roots.sg (History of Clementi); URA (Clementi Avenue 1 award); EdgeProp (Elta); URA (Faber Walk award); EdgeProp (Faber Residence); LTA (Cross Island Line Phase 2). Buildings are listed when their coordinate falls inside URA’s boundary for the planning area; prices are left out because they change.
