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Firm has partitioned units at several
sites
Ideal Accommodation, which was behind the
unauthorized refurbishment of The Grangeford condominium, is renting out
partitioned apartments in at least five other developments, checks by
The Straits Times found.
One is Holland Crest, a development which
was sold in a collective sale in 2007 to BBR Group.
Residents moved out last year, and Ideal
moved in to lease the empty apartments to tenants.
At least two blocks on the grounds -
blocks 19 and 21 - have partitioned units on every floor.
Residents, who are expatriates, students
and long term tourists, say they pay about $1,800 per partitioned unit
per month.
At Dalvey Court, off Stevens Road, a
walk-up apartment complex which had nine units originally, each
apartment has been partitioned into three or four units.
One studio unit - with master bedroom and
balcony - was going for $1,300.
Some partitioned units were also found at
Moonstone Apartments near Serangoon Road, No.8 Kim Keat Road and No. 144
Race Course Road.
Ideal was the master tenant of The
Grangeford condominium in Leonie Hill Road but was booted out by the
owner of the property after it failed to comply with an order by the
Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] to remove and restore its 600
partitioned rooms.
Tenants were told of the URA order very
late, leaving them little time to clear out.
A check on the company under the
Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority shows that the two
directors in charge are Mr Tang Yong, a Singapore PR, and Ms Tang Xuemei,
a Chinese national. The company, started in 2004, has $170,000 in
capital.
Mr. Tang Yong was uncontactable for a
response. URA would say only that it is 'already following up on the
feedback received on the residential properties managed by Ideal
Accommodation".
Tan Weizhen
Mr. Tang Yong of Ideal
Accommodation was been banned from
entering Pearlbank Apartments in 2001. see the link above for the story.
Pearlbankapartments.com requests that this PR whom has been ignoring
authority regulations, to loose his PR and or be jailed. He has
endangered the lives of thousands of people ! Do we need a tragedy,
before serious action is taken?
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