SINGAPORE, May 9 -- Five former schools in the east of Singapore are being cleared to make way for housing, as part of proposed updates to the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) masterplan published on April 24 and May 7.

The Straits Times (ST) reported that the affected sites are the former Bedok Town Secondary, Temasek Primary, Temasek Secondary, Qiaonan Primary and Siglap Secondary schools.

Demolition works are under way at three of the campuses, while URA has approved the tearing down of the remaining two.

At the junction of New Upper Changi Road and Bedok South Road, the former Temasek Primary and Secondary schools will make way for a 31,500 sq m residential plot with a gross plot ratio of 2.8.

Property analysts told ST that t...