Woodlands, Singapore

Woodlands
Planning Area and HDB Town
Other transcription(s)
• Chinese	兀兰
• Pinyin	Wùlán
• Malay	Woodlands
• Tamil	ஊட்லண்ட்ஸ்
From top left to right: MRT train passing by Woodlands Town Centre, Republic Polytechnic, Woodlands Street 82, HDB flats along Woodlands Avenue 4, Marsiling MRT Station, Si Ling Secondary School,
Woodlands Location of Woodlands within Singapore
Coordinates: 1°26′10.57″N 103°47′12.14″E / 1.4362694°N 103.7867056°E / 1.4362694; 103.7867056
Country	Singapore
Region	North Region
CDC	North West CDC
Town councils	Marsiling-Yew Tee Town Council Sembawang Town Council
Constituencies	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Sembawang GRC
Government
• Mayor	North West CDC Teo Ho Pin
• Members of Parliament	Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Halimah Yacob Ong Teng Koon Sembawang GRC Amrin Amin Khaw Boon Wan Vikram Nair
Area
• Total	13.59 km2 (5.25 sq mi)
• Residential	4.80 km2 (1.85 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	250,290
• Density	18,000/km2 (48,000/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Official Woodlands resident Colloquial Woodlander Woodlandian
Postal district	25
Dwelling units	62,675
Projected ultimate	98,000

North Region

North West CDC

Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

Sembawang GRC

Official

Colloquial

Woodlands (Chinese: 兀兰, Tamil: ஊட்லண்ட்ஸ்) is a planning area and residential town located in the North Region of Singapore. The town is connected to Malaysia's southernmost city, Johor Bahru, via the Johor-Singapore Causeway.

Woodlands planning area borders Sembawang to the east, Mandai to the south, Sungei Kadut to the west and the Straits of Johor to the north. Woodlands New Town is situated with the Woodlands planning area.

The area consisting of modern-day Woodlands Town first witnessed the opening of the Johor-Singapore Causeway in 1923. Early Woodlands consisted of villages and squatters where residents made their living mostly as small-time shopkeepers and vegetable farmers in the Marsiling area, while rubber plantations and poultry farms dot the landscape in Jalan Ulu Sembawang where modern-day Admiralty is located. The first HDB flats were built from 1972 in the northern part of Marsiling, and the Woodlands Bus interchange located at Woodlands Centre Road was built in 1980.

Development of Woodlands began in 1981. This compromises of the building of HDB flats in the Neighbourhood 1, which was completed in 1985; well after the Marsiling Estate. The Neighbourhood 8 were completed in 1987, together with the Neighbourhood 3 in 1989. Because of the saturation of HDB flats, the numbering system added 'A', 'B' and 'C'. Blocks 6xx in Admiralty begun to be completed in 1996, together with the 7xx in 1997. Expansion into Innova began in 1998 and was completed in 2002, which consists of block 5xx. Expansion into the Woodlands East began in 1999 and completed in 2004.