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Collection: Approval, Construction Commencement and Completion of Commercial Development

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

Housing

Approval, Construction Commencement & Completion of Commercial, Annual

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:52 SGT

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)

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

Data explorer

ApprovalConstructionCommencementCompletionofCommercialAnnual.csv (10 rows, 494 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	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	Office Space	124	475	473	80	228
2014	Office Space	111	123	88	186	225
2015	Office Space	192	91	176	11	93
2016	Office Space	79	150	119	154	240
2017	Office Space	149	107	46	223	315
2013	Retail Space	296	201	280	155	186
2014	Retail Space	121	260	171	126	238
2015	Retail Space	180	123	142	225	130
2016	Retail Space	52	131	144	132	185
2017	Retail Space	51	52	18	97	184

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
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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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a4c4d4f5b85f808708827e016668ed75"
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, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 7, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a4c4d4f5b85f808708827e016668ed75/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

28 Sep 2015

Licence

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

Agency

URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority)