say no to a columbarium next to our future home!

1. It is not right for it to be built right smack in a residential area.

2. If you decide to build one right in such area, it should be higlighted prominently and be known before land sales to property developers and to prospective HDB flat owners. This will mean the land sale price is discounted heavily and the unit price is heavily discounted for the disamenty of a columbarium.

3. It is designated as a chinese temple (non-commercial, religious), but the tender is won by an Australian company (commercial entity) offering integrated funeral services. Those reviewing the tender and who awarded the tender should be sent to live right next to it if the decision is to go ahead. 

4. There are better places elsewhere. There are many other plots of land still yet to be sold or developed, the coloumbarium should be relocated to these places. 

a. next to or within the designated industrial area beside Seletar.

b. next to the Tampines Expressway

c. other undeveloped land where the land sales have yet to take place and where the HDB sites have yet to be built. (And where you'd see that no one will want to buy a unit there, unless it is really cheap)

5. There are many young families with children who are moving in for the new flats which are newly built, these families require more children related facilities and services rather than aged or funeral related services.

6. No matter what other preventive measures or compromises is made, if the government should decide to go ahead with the building of the columbarium, please remember what happened to the MPs and minister who were faced with a similar issue in Serangoon Gardens foreign workers dormitory incident in 2008 and still decided to go ahead with building them. Where did the MPs and minister go in 2011?