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Appendix D Amenity Provision Guidelines For Workers' Dormitories Basic Facilities

The document provides guidelines for amenities that must be provided in workers' dormitories, including basic facilities, recreational amenities, commercial amenities, and living space standards. It specifies minimum space requirements for indoor and outdoor recreational facilities based on the number of workers housed. It also outlines examples of recreational, commercial, and basic amenities and notes the applicable development charge rates.

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Appendix D Amenity Provision Guidelines For Workers' Dormitories Basic Facilities

The document provides guidelines for amenities that must be provided in workers' dormitories, including basic facilities, recreational amenities, commercial amenities, and living space standards. It specifies minimum space requirements for indoor and outdoor recreational facilities based on the number of workers housed. It also outlines examples of recreational, commercial, and basic amenities and notes the applicable development charge rates.

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APPENDIX D

Amenity Provision Guidelines for Workers’ Dormitories

Basic Basic amenities such as living quarters, common toilets and dining areas
facilities are required to be provided. The design, construction and provision of
such basic facilities and amenities for the workers’ dormitory shall meet
the relevant authorities’ requirements. (PUB, NEA, SCDF and MOM
etc.).

The developer is strongly encouraged to construct and provide additional


amenities such as sickbay, laundry washing, drying area and collection
point within the development.

Recreational In addition to the basic amenities, the developer is also required to


amenities provide recreational amenities within the development. The minimum
GFA for the recreational amenities, which depends on the number of
workers housed in a dormitory, is as follows:

No. of workers a) Minimum GFA b) Minimum land area


housed in a dormitory dedicated for indoor dedicated for outdoor
recreational recreational facilities
amenities5
50 to 300 50 sqm Encouraged6
301 to 500 75 sqm Encouraged6
501 to 1000 100 sqm Encouraged6
1001 to 5000 0.10 sqm per worker7 0.30 sqm per worker
(min. of one 100 sqm
multi-purpose room (min. of one 240 sqm
for the first 1,000 hard court for the first
workers) 1,000 workers)

Only recreational
spaces are to be
counted towards this
provision requirement

Commercial The developer is allowed to provide up to 20 sqm of GFA in the


amenities development for commercial amenities if there are more than 100
workers and up to 500 workers housed in the dormitory.

The developer is required to provide a minimum of 0.05 sqm per worker


up to a maximum of 0.10 sqm per worker, if there are more than 500
workers and up to 5000 workers housed in the dormitory. The
commercial quantum is subject to evaluation for workers’ dormitory
housing more than 5000 workers.

5
Examples of indoor recreational amenities are multi-purpose room, gymnasium, reading room, TV rooms and
basketball court. The reasonable sizes of a TV room and a gymnasium are 24 sqm and 40 sqm respectively.
6
The developer is strongly encouraged to construct and provide outdoor games court, recreation and
socializing area within the development.
7
Where the site is subject to higher provision standards stipulated under the site’s tender conditions, the
higher standards shall apply.
For foreign workers’ dormitories in industrial/warehouse developments,
the commercial amenities shall form part of the ancillary quantum control
within industrial developments.

Examples of commercial amenities are mini-mart, barber shop, bicycle


repair shop, telecommunications shop, internet shop, remittance shop,
postal service shop and ATM.

Living space The developer is required to provide a minimum of 4.5 sqm GFA per
standards worker for the living space. These should include the basic living
facilities, such as the sleeping quarters, kitchen, dining and toilet areas
as well. This would serve the purpose of improving dormitory living
standards and help to reduce likelihood of amenity issues.

Applicable The relevant Development Charge (DC) rates for Temporary


DC rate for Development Levy (TDL) or Differential Premium (DP) by SLA are as
Recreational follows:
and
Commercial Recreational amenities
amenities Recreational amenities are to be computed under Industrial use rate.

Commercial amenities
Commercial amenities are to be computed under Commercial use rate,
i.e. Group A.

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