Buangkok is an area located in the North-East Region

North-East Region, Singapore

The North-East Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. It includes seven urban planning areas. As its name implies, it is located in the north-eastern part of Singapore.The land area is about 13,810 hectares....

 of Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. It encompasses an area of Hougang New Town and the medical hub of Buangkok Green Medical Park that includes the Institute of Mental Health

Institute of Mental Health

The Institute of Mental Health is a medical complex in Singapore specialising in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses. The Institute was also popularly known by its former name as the Woodbridge Hospital...

 north of Buangkok Green, and the public residential areas in the neighbourhood of Compassvale

Compassvale

Compassvale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town, and is located between Rivervale and Anchorvale. The house numbers of the public apartment blocks in Compassvale begin with the number '2'...

 in Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town

Sengkang New Town is a relatively young satellite residential town in the city-state of Singapore. Originally a fishing village, the area is presently undergoing rapid development under the ambition of the Housing and Development Board to transform it into a "21st century township". The town now...

 north of Buangkok Drive. It was once filled and overcrowded by kampongs and villages that have been demolished just in 2009.

Etymology and history

Chinese

China

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 farmer

Farmer

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s settled on the land in this vicinity in the early twentieth century. The land belonged partly to the state and partly to Singapore United Rubber Plantation Limited. The namesake road Lorong Buang Kok was named buang kok, meaning "united", after the rubber

Rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined...

 plantation

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

 by the settlers. In 1967, a track off Lorong Buang Kok was named Lorong Buang Kok Kechil.

When Sengkang New Town was developed in the late 1990s, a large section of Lorong Buang Kok was removed for the development of the housing new town. Today, Lorong Buang Kok is truncated into two sections — one located at the west end of Buangkok with its entrance near Yio Chu Kang Road, and the other much shorter section located within Sengkang New Town near Punggol Road.

Public housing estates

The public housing estates in Buangkok include a cluster of apartment

Apartment

An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building...

 blocks at Buangkok Link in the northern part of Hougang New Town and the southern part of Compassvale in Sengkang New Town.

The housing estates in Compassvale are as follows:

• Compassvale Arcadia, Compassvale Link - Block nos. 267A-B, 268A-D & 269A-D
• Aspella, Compassvale Link - Block nos. 275A-D & 277A-D
• Atrina, Sengkang Central & Compassvale Link - Block nos. 272A-D & 273A-D
• Coris 1 & 2, Compassvale Bow & Compassvale Link - Block nos. 264A-F, 265A-E & 266A-C
• Tivela, Sengkang Central - Block nos. 270A & 271A-C

Transport

Buangkok MRT Station

Buangkok MRT Station

Buangkok MRT Station is an underground station located on the North East Line of the Mass Rapid Transit in Singapore. The station is in Sengkang and near to Hougang and serves residents in the vicinity....

 (NE15) on the North East Line

North East MRT Line

The North East MRT Line is the third Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore and the world's second longest fully underground, automated and driverless, rapid transit line after Singapore's Circle MRT Line. The line is 20 km long with 16 stations and operated by SBS Transit. Travelling from one end...

serves the residents of Buangkok. It was opened on 15 January 2006 due to popular demand.