Compassvale View was offered in a November 2006 BTO exercise with a reported 390 flats: 105 three-room and 285 four-room standard flats. Its story gives families a clear way to connect a familiar Sengkang name with an older housing record.
A contemporary report dated 28 November 2006, preserved in a third-party forum reproduction, described the launch and an application window ending on 18 December. Housing Map’s later index also places the project in November 2006.
For a quick answer, 2006 is the launch year discussed here. It should not be relabelled as the year every resident received keys or moved home.
eduKateSengkang • Neighbourhood history and learning
Choose your reading route
Follow the historical record, explore the key distinction, or try the worked family learning activity.
1. What the November report establishes
2. Why the flat mix deserves its own explanation
3. Worked example: percentages and a checking step
Contents
Four connected chapters
1. What the November report establishes
2. Why the flat mix deserves its own explanation
The reproduced report presents Compassvale View as a new Sengkang development under the Build-To-Order exercise. It identifies the two flat categories and describes completion in 2010 as an expectation at that time.
That last detail needs its original tense. “Expected to be completed” is a forecast in a launch report, not independent proof of the eventual completion date.
The same report described Ranggung LRT and nearby commercial facilities as part of the launch setting. These are historical descriptions; they are not a measured walking-time promise for a family making a journey today.
Reading a contemporary report carefully means hearing both what it knew and what it was still anticipating.
The mix offers a more concrete picture than a launch year alone. It tells us the categories of homes being offered, without telling us the personal circumstances of the households that later lived there.
A three-room flat category is not a count of bedrooms, and neither category tells us how many people occupy a home. Keep the unit of measurement visible: these numbers count flats.
Imagine planning a display for a school neighbourhood project. Two bars labelled “three-room flats” and “four-room flats” communicate the evidence more honestly than drawings of imagined families.
Children can make the display welcoming without adding stereotypes. Different homes belong within the same neighbourhood story; a category is a description, not a judgement.
First check the total: 105 + 285 = 390 flats. The three-room share is 105 ÷ 390 × 100 ≈ 26.9%. The four-room share is 285 ÷ 390 × 100 ≈ 73.1%.
The rounded percentages add to 100.0%, providing a useful arithmetic check. Their ratio, 105:285, simplifies to 7:19 after dividing both numbers by 15.
A careful summary is: “About 27% of the flats in the reported launch mix were three-room flats.” It would be inaccurate to replace “flats” with “residents” or “families”.
For an extra challenge, draw a hypothetical 26-part strip with seven parts in one colour and nineteen in another. Explain why this represents the ratio, not the physical arrangement of the blocks.
On a neighbourhood walk, begin with a current map and confirm the full development name. “Compassvale” appears in many places, so the second word matters.
From a permitted shared area, choose a sign or path to describe. Record the date of your observation, then add the launch fact separately with its source.
A useful caption has two sentences: one about what you observed today and another about the November 2006 record. A present photograph can illustrate the setting but cannot prove a twenty-year-old event by itself.
Does the report establish current vacancies, eligibility or prices? No. Those are separate, changing questions. The pleasure here is learning to read a neighbourhood’s past with a little more precision.
Sources and evidence limits
Sources checked on 18 October 2026 (UTC). Launch records and historical reports do not establish current access, application rules or every block’s actual completion date.
28 November 2006 launch report — third-party forum reproduction
Housing Map BTO index — secondary chronology
The worked activities are original learning examples, not records of residents’ circumstances. The featured classroom photograph illustrates eduKate’s learning context; it is not a photograph of this location.
