eduKateSengkang • Neighbourhood history and facts
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1. Reading the April 2011 record
Did you know that Anchorvale Cove’s original launch record set out an exact mix of 1,011 homes? The HDB release dated 25 April 2011 listed 218 three-room, 463 four-room and 330 five-room flats.
Anchorvale Cove history begins here with a housing launch, rather than an assumed opening ceremony. The document places the development between Anchorvale Street and Anchorvale Crescent, next to Farmway LRT.
For families curious about Sengkang, this is a useful small history: a named place, a dated proposal and a set of numbers that can be checked. The original release survives in a third-party PDF copy, identified in the source notes below.
Contents
Three short chapters
The release offered Anchorvale Cove as one of four BTO projects in the exercise. Applications ran from 25 April to 1 May 2011. It described the project using the historical category “premium” and included plans for a Residents’ Committee centre and childcare centre.
Read that terminology within its date. A label in a 2011 sales document is evidence of the language used then; it should not be silently translated into a current housing classification.
For a school project, start with a sentence that states both the event and its source: the April 2011 launch document described the planned housing development. This is more precise than saying that the estate “opened in 2011”.
The figures provide a compact mathematics exercise: 218 + 463 + 330 = 1,011. The largest category in this launch mix was the four-room flat.
Invite a child to turn the three counts into a bar chart. Begin the vertical axis at zero, choose one consistent scale and label each category. Then ask two separate questions: which category is largest, and by how many flats does it exceed another?
Counts describe homes offered in the record. They do not count residents. A household can contain different numbers of people, so multiplying every flat by one assumed family size would create an estimate rather than a documented population.
The lesson travels beyond housing. Whenever a number appears, identify what one unit represents. A flat, a person, a household and an application are different things.
The release estimated completion in the fourth quarter of 2014 and stated that actual completion depended on construction progress. That forecast is not an independently verified record of the final completion or first occupation date.
A simple timeline can use different labels for different evidence: “applications opened”, “completion estimated” and, if a later reliable record is found, “completion confirmed”. Keeping those labels visible prevents a neat chart from becoming an inaccurate story.
For family exploration, use the existing Anchorvale guide for neighbourhood context and current local signs for access. The archived launch is a history companion, not a current list of shops, transport services or application rules.
Try asking an older family member what they remember about moving into a new neighbourhood. Record it as personal recollection, with permission, and place it alongside the documentary timeline. The two kinds of evidence can enrich one another without being treated as interchangeable.
Sources and reading notes
Sources checked on 14 October 2026. Dates describe the events specified in the records; historical proposals and estimates are not current service information.
HDB release dated 25 April 2011 — preserved third-party PDF copy
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