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Collection: Approval, Construction Commencement and Completion of Commercial Development

Dataset: Approval, Construction Commencement & Completion of Commercial, Quarterly

Housing

Approval, Construction Commencement & Completion of Commercial, Quarterly

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)

Data from Oct 2013 to Sep 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Provisional permission, Written permission, Building plan approval, Building commencement, Building completion by Quarter

Data explorer

ApprovalConstructionCommencementCompletionofCommercialQuarterly.csv (40 rows, 1.5 KB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Type Of Space Text	Provisional Permission Numeric	Written Permission Numeric	Building Plan Approval Numeric	Building Commencement Numeric	Building Completion Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013-Q4	Office Space	18	61	213	9	52
2014-Q1	Office Space	1	20	61	59	38
2014-Q2	Office Space	90	17	16	6	8
2014-Q3	Office Space	7	10	2	99	1
2014-Q4	Office Space	13	76	9	22	178
2015-Q1	Office Space	8	2	75	5	79
2015-Q2	Office Space	90	7	1	0	6
2015-Q3	Office Space	2	12	17	0	0
2015-Q4	Office Space	92	70	83	6	8
2016-Q1	Office Space	0	2	0	93	1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Type Of Space	type_of_space	Text	-	-
Provisional Permission	provisional_permission	Numeric	Thousand Sq m gross	-
Written Permission	written_permission	Numeric	Thousand Sq m gross	-
Building Plan Approval	building_plan_approval	Numeric	Thousand Sq m gross	-
Building Commencement	building_commencement	Numeric	Thousand Sq m gross	-
Building Completion	building_completion	Numeric	Thousand Sq m gross	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_34fc34d1be1fd5ae0d4eb19077da450e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Urban Redevelopment Authority. (2015). Approval, Construction Commencement & Completion of Commercial, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_34fc34d1be1fd5ae0d4eb19077da450e/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

28 Sep 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)