Marsiling Division
Dear Residents and Friends,
Thank you for your support in our journey together at Marsiling.
We have seen Marsiling come a long way and have grown as a family. With open arms, we welcomed new residents and always ready to help one another.
Together, we have built a better home for all of us.
It takes a village to raise a child. Through our collective efforts, the children of Marsiling can have a brighter future.
Many of our programmes have also benefitted families, as well as our elders.
Allow me to highlight some of the ways in which we have come together to build a better Marsiling. I will also share our commitment to deliver more programmes and developments over the next five years – our 2025 masterplan for residents.
Dear Residents and Friends,
Thank you for your support in our journey together at Marsiling.
We have seen Marsiling come a long way and have grown as a family. With open arms, we welcomed new residents and always ready to help one another.
Together, we have built a better home for all of us.
It takes a village to raise a child. Through our collective efforts, the children of Marsiling can have a brighter future.
Many of our programmes have also benefitted families, as well as our elders.
Allow me to highlight some of the ways in which we have come together to build a better Marsiling. I will also share our commitment to deliver more programmes and developments over the next five years – our 2025 masterplan for residents.
Large-scale town wide project
With the demolishing of the old Woodlands Town Centre in 2017, a review was carried out to address the need to reconnect residents of Marsiling to the new gravity centres such as the newly built Marsiling Mall and the older Market and Food Centre at Block 20/21 Marsiling Lane. The proposed new linkways will provide residents with much needed convenience of sheltered access across major roads to access the transport nodes and amenities. The Town Council is working closely with the other agencies such as the Housing & Development Board and Land Transport Authority to roll out the new linkways progressively in 2022.Upcoming Repair & Redecorations
Repair & Redecorations (R&R) works such as repainting of the external façade of the blocks and internal common areas, upgrading of the refuse chutes, re-screeding of the common corridor walkways and etc are part of cyclical works carried out by the Town Council to keep the estate in good condition. We are pleased to inform Residents that the Zones 4 and 5 is scheduled for R&R works in early 2022.Rejuvenation of Woodlands N2 Neighbourhood Centre (Blocks 18 – 21 Marsiling Lane) under the Remaking of Our Heartland Programme
The Remaking of Our Heartland (ROH) initiative is a comprehensive blueprint to renew and transform HDB towns and estates into distinctive and endearing homes for Singaporeans. In Mar 2015, MND announced the ROH plans for the Woodlands Town, and one of the key proposals is to rejuvenate the Neighbourhood Centres in Woodlands Town by upgrading the common areas. This will help to enhance the vibrancy and strengthen the identity of the neighbourhood centres, and provide more spaces for community activities.
HDB’s appointed design consultant has completed the preliminary proposal for Woodlands N2 Neighbourhood Centre with inputs provided by the Project Working Committee comprising key stakeholders, representatives from the GROs and the local Merchants’ Association.
The ROH works is tentatively scheduled to commence in 2nd half of 2022.
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Blks 122-143 & 180-181 (Zone 3)
Blks 144-166 (Zone 4)
Blks 167-179 (Zone 5)
Blks 201-218 (Zone 7)
Blks 1-5A (Zone 8)
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Marsiling Initiatives
Rejuvenate
Marsiling has more than 40 years of history as a bustling neighbourhood. Residents have enjoyed the convenience and familiarity of Marsiling Hawker Centre and Market for years, with many food options and familiar hawkers and retailers selling their wares.
As part of increasing the area’s vibrancy and enhancing our shopping and eating experiences, upgrades will get underway at the walkways at Blks 20 and 21 around Marsiling Lane Hawker Centre and Wet Market. Residents and visitors will soon see a refreshing change in this area.
Rejuvenation will also include bringing a fresh and modern look to more mature blocks in the form of newly designed murals at prominent locations. This will add to the distinct identity and theme of Marsiling. This will be accompanied with the re-screeding of some common corridor walkways, repairs to spalling concrete and other general repairs to the common areas to give your families and visitors a fresh feel to your homes.
Covered walkways, footpaths, playgrounds and bicycle racks will also be enhanced as part of the overall community improvement effort.
Over the next few years, the plan is to upgrade Marsiling to provide more modern amenities, and create spaces that can add to the buzz, more shelters and play areas that residents can enjoy.
To complement Marsiling Neighbourhood Centre upgrading, we will build a new Marsiling Community Club in 2025 – 2026 so that residents can enjoy more modern facilities, programmes and activities to enable many modern Community Clubs today to serve residents, replacing the 40-year old Community Club at Admiralty Road.
Marsiling has more than 40 years of history as a bustling neighbourhood. Residents have enjoyed the convenience and familiarity of Marsiling Hawker Centre and Market for years, with many food options and familiar hawkers and retailers selling their wares.
As part of increasing the area’s vibrancy and enhancing our shopping and eating experiences, upgrades will get underway at the walkways at Blks 20 and 21 around Marsiling Lane Hawker Centre and Wet Market. Residents and visitors will soon see a refreshing change in this area.
Rejuvenation will also include bringing a fresh and modern look to more mature blocks in the form of newly designed murals at prominent locations. This will add to the distinct identity and theme of Marsiling. This will be accompanied with the re-screeding of some common corridor walkways, repairs to spalling concrete and other general repairs to the common areas to give your families and visitors a fresh feel to your homes.
Covered walkways, footpaths, playgrounds and bicycle racks will also be enhanced as part of the overall community improvement effort.
Over the next few years, the plan is to upgrade Marsiling to provide more modern amenities, and create spaces that can add to the buzz, more shelters and play areas that residents can enjoy.
To complement Marsiling Neighbourhood Centre upgrading, we will build a new Marsiling Community Club in 2025 – 2026 so that residents can enjoy more modern facilities, programmes and activities to enable many modern Community Clubs today to serve residents, replacing the 40-year old Community Club at Admiralty Road.
Amenities
Provide additional walkway shelters to MRT stations and key amenities. This includes 5 major linkways, 188 linkways and 73 shelters.
Our goal is to provide continuous and seamless connectivity, especially for residents who are less mobile.
To deliver on this, Marsiling residents will witness these key developments – and benefit from them – in the coming months.
- A three-phase development at Marsiling Drive. One part will involve the construction of a lift to enable residents from Blk 1 to get to Level 1 and access amenities; the second entails a new skybridge from Blk 1 to Marsiling Drive connecting to a sheltered linkway to Blk 7A; and the third, a sheltered linkway to the bus stop in front of Christalite Methodist Home.
- A linkway connecting Blk 12 to the Blk 180C series to provide access to residents from these two neighbourhoods on both sides of Marsiling Road.
- A high-covered linkway creating two-way access and this will benefit bus commuters going to Marsiling Market & Hawker Centre across Marsiling Lane. This wet market in Marsiling is popular with residents of not just Marsiling, but also others from Woodlands Town and beyond!
- Sheltered linkways enabling residents to cross over Woodlands Street 13 through blocks 154 and 182, and another linking Blk 183C to 178.
At Marsiling, our Home Improvement Programme (HIP) provides individual homes with new clothes drying racks, renovation works to address structural cracks and spalling concrete. EASE programme helps our senior citizens with grab bars and anti-slip treatment for floor tiles in toilets.
- Up to 3,100 families benefited from HIP since 2015.
- 397 families have successfully voted in favour of HIP in blocks 132 to 143 Marsiling Rise. Works targeted to be completed by 1st quarter 2022.
- Two new Residents’ Network (RN) for Zone 9 at Block 185B opened in 2020 and Zone 8 at Block 2 will be opened in 2022 to provide more courses and run more programmes for residents.
Inter-Connectivity
Join Mr Zaqy as he brings us to tour around the Woodlands Integrated Transport Hub (WITH)
New Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) adds a new transportation and access dimension for Marsiling residents to the East in addition to the existing North-South Line (NSL). First phase opened in January 2020 with three stations in Woodlands. Residents will be able to reach Caldecott and city by 2022, and to East Coast and Changi Airport by 2025.
New Woodlands Bus Interchange opened on 13 June 2021, providing commuters greater connectivity to the MRT services above.
Jurong Region Line from Choa Chu Kang Station to the south, will enable greater connectivity to the western region – to the new Jurong Innovation District, Jurong Lake District, Tengah estate and other workplaces.
Care for Every Heartbeat
Launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in March 2019, Marsiling Cares is an umbrella initiative for the community to care for those among us who are vulnerable. Marsiling Cares has introduced 12 initiatives which has benefitted almost 2,000 residents since its launch.
Every month, 1,500 families from our rental units in Marsiling receive food rations and other forms of social support from the Marsiling grassroots and partner organisations.
The best way to support one’s livelihood is to enable career mobility. M3@Marsiling-Yew Tee collaborated with NTUC Learning Hub and MENDAKI SENSE in January 2020 to bring together more job opportunities for job seekers. The fair served more than 800 residents for the roadshow and career fair with 15 employers and 4 career advisers joining them.
In addition, Marsiling ComLink, in collaboration with FastJobs, will place FastKiosks at high traffic density locations in the Estate. FastKioks are digital kiosks which can dispense information regarding available job opportunities in the community locations. This can help raise awareness and connect workers (including mature workers) to job opportunities posted.
Harmonious Living
We maintain close connections with residents and organisations, regardless of race, language or religion through the Heart of Our Community programme. This ensures Marsiling’s vibrant atmosphere and strengthens the “kampung spirit” for our community. Last year, Marsiling outreached to 45,000 participants across various events and festivals.
We collaborated with Shang Di Miao Chai Kong Temple and the Hong Tho Bilw Temple on various activities and events. Annually, An-Nur Mosque and Indian Muslim Social Service Association (IMSSA) organise Iftar (break fast) for more than 5,000 residents across all races to foster greater understanding of the significance of the month of Ramadan.
Sri Siva-Krishna Temple brings to Marsiling its annual procession and events such as Pongal and Deepavali celebrations.
Secure and Ever Ready
Through these initiatives we aim to create the heart of the community, caring for every heartbeat. We will do this by implementing programmes to bring neighbours and the community closer, especially those in need and vulnerable.
The health and well-being of our residents remains our top priority. Our grassroots, residents and volunteers work closely in our community networks to promote and deploy health and well-being programmes and activities.
In Marsiling, we CARE for our seniors and would like to outreach to them to tackle pneumonia together. Our Smart Wellness programme was launched in early December 2021. In addition to providing free vaccination for our seniors, we are providing Smart Wellness Mobile Clinic as well. The objective is to bring healthcare to their doorsteps.
Other Marsiling community support programmes include the Milk Fund Grant, Back to Work Grant and the Diaper Vouchers for Seniors.
Such platforms are invaluable as part of the COVID-19 emergency response measures and outreach. During this period, our preparedness was tested and our community volunteers were able to organize the distribution of surgical masks to serve our 16,000 households in Marsiling. Since 1 October 2021, over 50 volunteers have stepped forward to provide support to our residents who are on Home Recovery Programme. They are actively delivering WeCare packs, food rations and meal support to the affected households in need.
Our grassroots, residents and volunteers remain ready to work together to meet such challenges head-on with good coordination, diligent preparation, responsiveness and resilience.
To keep our residents secure, our Residents’ Networks (RN) volunteers patrol the estate and keep watch on potential security issues or disturbances in the community, working closely with the Neighbourhood Police Post.
The Community Emergency and Engagement Committee (C2E) have enabled Emergency Preparedness in the community to train volunteers and residents, often carrying out exercises and trainings in the community to get the community ready for any crises and emergencies.
That is how we move forward as One Marsiling.
Education
Each year, Marsiling Citizens’ Consultative Committee (CCC) and North West Community Development Council, with the Ministry of Education, gives out various awards, scholarships and bursaries to more than 2,600 students, who have performed well academically, and also those who are in need of financial assistance.
Collaborate with various partners to organize programmes such as Progress Class and Kelas Matematika (KMM) to develop children’s academic potential in their early years.
Annually, Deeparagam and Sangamum provide bursaries and awards for Indian students who have shown good progress in school. From 2015-2019, 650 students have been supported with study awards and bursaries.
Launched by President Halimah Yacob in 2018, the Community Scouting initiative in Marsiling has outreached to more than 640 residents from the community to provide peer support and confidence building through activities like campfires, adventure hikes, mentorship and learning programmes.
PACE @ Marsiling Youth Centre by Cavalry, became our first youth activity centre set-up in Marsiling, located at Marsiling CC in September 2019. The centre provides youths with after-school mentoring and developmental activities, such as reading, outdoor barbecue bonding sessions and E-gaming.
Better Start In Life
A core feature is the partnership between the public, people and private sectors. ComLink empowers families to improve their circumstances and achieve sustained stability. The Marsiling ComLink programme space is a one-stop location where families can conveniently access a suite of social services, such as family services and pre-school support.
Shining Star Reads – a community-based learning programme that brings learning opportunities to pre and primary school children.
Mentoring & Character Development Programme For Children And Youth – Sports activities, art classes, tech-based activities and workshops to foster critical thinking and building creative capacity in preschoolers and primary school children.
KidSTART – A programme for eligible young children under 6 years in hope to give them a good headstart in life. Journey with parents to provide support for child development, coordinate and strengthen holistic services where needed, and monitor the developmental progress of children from birth onwards. Provides supports for parents with child development, coordinate and strengthen holistic support for families from low-income families from birth onwards.
Tuition – Academic support for primary and secondary school students.
KidsExcel – After-school Sports & Academic (English/Mathematics) programme which includes weekly classes, sports leagues, learning journeys and enrichment workshops designed to nurture confident, resilient children who are motivated learners.
Study Buddy – Experiential learning for children to discover their strengths and develop important life skills through the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum.
Knowing Me – A group work programme to build up sense of self and emotional resilience among children.
Marsiling also partners Ministry of Education (MOE) on the UPLIFT programme to strengthen after-school support for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The UPLIFT programme is run in tandem with ComLink to strengthen collaboration and coordination between schools and community partners, to better support these children. UPLIFT and ComLink are expected to benefit 562 families.
Active Living & Healthy Lifestyle
Our seniors lived in our Nation’s formative years of nation building and have made key contributions and sacrifices. They are part of Singapore’s nation building and growth story. It is this generation’s privilege and honour to ensure that care is given to our Silver Generation.
Our Senior Citizens’ Executive Committee and various committees, promote active lifestyle programmes such as exercises, such as qigong, brisk walking etc and inter-generation bonding through events like Grandparents’ Day.
To promote lifelong skills development and careers, we collaborated with Workforce Singapore in November 2019, to organise Marsiling’s first Career Fair for Mature Workers and job seekers connect to job opportunities. The initiative was well-received by more than 400 job-seekers and various employers.
