RES exam question on Planning & Development: A developer intensifies a site's permitted use, raising its land value
A developer intensifies a site's permitted use, raising its land value. The site area is 1,000 square metres and the Master Plan plot ratio is 2.8. Which is/are correct? (i) The base permissible GFA is 2.8 x 1,000 = 2,800 square metres (ii) Intensifying the use so as to raise land value can attract a Land Betterment Charge (iii) Plot ratio is a multiplier, while GFA is the resulting permissible floor area (iv) Plot ratio and GFA mean the same thing
- A(i) and (iv) only
- B(i), (ii) and (iii) only
- C(ii) and (iv) only
- DAll of the above
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Answer
B. (i), (ii) and (iii) only
Explanation
(i) is correct: the base permissible GFA is plot ratio times site area, 2.8 x 1,000 = 2,800 square metres. (ii) is correct: intensifying use so as to raise land value can attract a Land Betterment Charge. (iii) is correct: plot ratio is a multiplier and GFA the resulting area. Hence (i), (ii) and (iii) only. The Land Betterment Charge replaced the Development Charge, the Differential Premium and the Temporary Development Levy on 1 August 2022, and is administered by the Singapore Land Authority under the Land Betterment Charge Act.
Why the other options are wrong
- (iv) is wrong, since one is a ratio and the other an area.
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