Around 1,600 new HDB flats will be built on a 10ha site in Farrer Park, and integrated with sports and recreational facilities including a new sports centre. The Build-To-Order projects will be launched for sale within three years.

In a nod to the area's rich sporting heritage, about 20 per cent of the site will be set aside as open spaces for sports and recreational uses, including a 1.2ha central green space comprising a field and a park.

In The Straits Times' The Big Story, Multimedia Journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Sports correspondent Sazali Abdul Aziz about the reactions from the sporting community to these plans.