Debated in Parliament on 4 Aug 2026.
Miss Rachel Ong asked the Minister for National Development (a) whether findings from post-development biodiversity monitoring under the Environmental Monitoring and Management Plan for Gillman Barracks will be made public; and (b) what indicators will be used to assess mitigation effectiveness.
Miss Rachel Ong asked the Minister for National Development (a) whether wider or alternative ecological corridor configurations were modelled beyond the proposed minimum 30-metre width; and (b) what was the ecological basis used to determine that this width is sufficient to maintain habitat connectivity at Gillman Barracks.
Ms Eileen Chong Pei Shan asked the Minister for National Development (a) why are the public consultations for the Sunset Way and Gillman Barracks sites based on development proposals with retention percentages already determined, rather than on environmental baseline data prior to a development scheme as was done for Dover Forest in December 2020; and (b) how does this affect the scope of the feedback sought.
These questions were addressed in the Ministry of National Development's reply to the questions asked by Dr Charlene Chen, Mr Christopher de Souza, Mr Dennis Tan Lip Fong, Ms Eileen Chong Pei Shan, Ms Elysa Chen, Mr Fadli Fawzi, Ms He Ting Ru, Ms Joan Pereira, Mr Kenneth Tiong Boon Kiat, Ms Nadia Ahmad Samdin, Miss Rachel Ong, Ms Valerie Lee and Mr Low Wu Yang Andre on 4 August 2026. [Please refer to "Assessments, Consultations and Consideration of Alternative Sites for Housing before Decisions on Clearance of Gillman Barracks and Maju Forest", Official Report, 4 August 2026, Vol 96, Issue 33, Oral Answers to Questions section.]
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