What is the General JTC Usage / JTC Guidelines for JTC Factory / Property?

Answer: 

Applicants are required to comply with other Government Agencies’ rules and regulations relating to JTC Usage and JTC Guideline, including but not but limited to the following:

• URA’s land use zoning and development control requirements (e.g. B1, B2, Business Park Zone and 60:40 industrial space usage requirement) (For more information, please refer to URA’s website at http://www.ura.gov.sg)

• NEA’s Code of Practice on Pollution Control (For more information, please refer to NEA’s website at http://www.nea.gov.sg)

• SCDF’s Fire Safety (Petroleum and Flammable Materials Regulations) (For more information, please refer to SCDF’s website at http://www.scdf.gov.sg)

The Applicant’s usage must be compatible with JTC Usage and JTC Guideline on zoning i.e:

• Food or food-related industries to be located within JTC’s Food Zone 

• B1 activities to be located within a 100-meter buffer from JTC’s Food Zone

• Activities that fall within the List of Allowable Activities in Business Parks 

• Biomedical or biomedical-related activities to be located within JTC’s Tuas Biomedical Park 

• Activities that fall within the List of Scheduled Premises are not allowed to be located within 1 km from Tuas Biomedical Park.

• JTC Furniture or interior design-related activities to be located within JTC’s Sungei Kadut JTC Furniture Zone

The Applicant’s JTC usage should not include the following activities in the Negative List:

• Concrete industry (Change/extension of use from non-concrete to concrete is not allowed)

• Motor workshops (Change/ extension of use from non-motor workshop to motor workshop is not allowed for a workshop and flatted factory tenants/ lessees. This restriction is not applicable to land and standard factory tenants/ lessees)

• Land-based logistics industry operating predominantly as “Inland Container Depot”, ie use of open yard for storing of containers

Applicants for JTC’s waterfront land

• Waterfront land must be involved in marine industrial activities which utilise the waterfront area within the subject premises

Environmental Baseline Study (EBS).

• If approved, Applicants whose activities are potentially pollutive i.e. activities that fall within the List of Pollutive Activities Subject to Site Assessment Before Change of Use or Rezoning as set out in Appendix 21 of NEA’s Code of Practice on Pollution Control, will be required to conduct an Environmental Baseline Study (EBS).

Further Assessment List

If the Applicant’s proposed usage is one of the following, the application requires further assessment:

• Waste Management / Recycling industry

• Chemical, chemical warehousing, petrochemical and petroleum refineries

• Wood Products and Wood Furniture industry

• Activities which impose Health & Safety Buffer or Height Constraint on the surrounding area

• Usage on sites adjacent to MRT lines

• Export Processing Zone

• Motor repair activities in Standard Factory / Land sites