Singaporean fined record $600,000 for unauthorised dormitory accomodation
URA regulations specify that private properties can just house up to six unrelated individuals.
URA states that Tan admitted that he recognized the tenancy regulations yet chose to proceed with the unauthorised conversion of the facilities anyway.
“Unauthorised residence hall housing not only negatively impacts the residence character of the area, however also negatively influences the occupants, who may be from even more at risk group of people that are vulnerable to profiteering,” claims Martin Tan, supervisor, Development Control Group, URA.
Additional investigations uncovered the reality that Tan had been supplying dorm room rental at those facilities for around 2 years, which he had transformed 8 other private residential properties to unauthorised dorm accommodation in between 2016 to 2018. The number of dwellers in each unit reached from 7 to 23.
According to a URA news release on June 14, a 72-year-old Singaporean guy, Tan Hock Keng, was founded guilty of 3 counts of switching exclusive residential properties to illegal dorm room rental. On May 30, he was penalized a record $600,000, with the maximum penalty of $200,000 enforced for each charge.
He adds: “URA is going to continue to get strong enforcement acts facing criminals, including owner, occupants, representatives and anyone discovered to have flouted URA’s guidelines on the rent or subletting of personal houses”.
Enforcement police officers from the Ministry of Manpower had actually inspected private houses associated to Tan and found that the many tenants residing there had drastically gone beyond URA’s tenancy cap policies.
Acting on the MOM examinations, that occurred in December 2017 and March 2018, URA’s investigations exposed that 15 international employees were residing in 1012B Upper Serangoon Roadway. One more 16 and 17 international people were found to be residing in 32H Lorong 22 Geylang and 32J Lorong 22 Geylang, respectively.