Sengkang Riverside Park: Part 2

Photo: Sengkang Riverside Park offers panoramic views.

Sengkang Riverside Park: Part 2

Sengkang Riverside Park is located at Anchorvale Street in Sengkang housing estate. If you remember from my previous post, the newest public park is divided into three areas, divided by Anchorvale Street and the river Sungei Punggol. These three areas were labelled Visitor Centre Plot, Mangrove Plot and Civic Centre Plot. I have described the Visitor Centre Plot earlier. Today I shall continue with my descriptions of other plots.

Sengkang Riverside Park: Mangrove Plot
Over at the mangrove plot, south of Anchorvale Street, Sengkang Riverside Park is an open space with a hilltop that affords a 360-degree panoramic view of Sengkang estate. One can find park benches here to rest and to enjoy the estate's serene scenery.

On cool afternoons, you can expect to be greeted with a mild breeze. On scorching hot days, the cubed-shaped wooden shelter filled with gaps will hardly save your skin from painful sun rays.

The area next to the river, designated for a mangrove park, appears to be under construction. Concrete piles have been planted into the riverbed and a part of the river bank has been cordoned off. Perhaps in a month or two, there would be a boardwalk of some sort to allow park users to inspect the newly planted mangroves.

Photo: Barriers still present at Sengkang Riverside Park.

At the time I was there, the mangrove plot of Sengkang Riverside Park seemed rather bare. Even the shrubs and trees were few and scattered far apart.

Sengkang Riverside Park: Civic Plot
East of the Sungei Punggol, Sengkang Riverside Park offers another avenue for park visitors to enjoy more open spaces with amenities. However I did not get the opportunity to explore the area.

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Sengkang Riverside Park

Sengkang Riverside Park

I wrote about Sengkang Riverside Park last year. At that time, the park was still closed. Recently, I discovered that Sengkang Riverside Park was open to the public for recreational visits.

Sengkang Riverside Park is located at Anchorvale Street in Sengkang housing estate. If you remember from my previous post about Sengkang's newest park, the public park is divided into three areas, divided by Anchorvale Street and the river Sungei Punggol. These three areas are labelled Visitor Centre Plot, Mangrove Plot and Civic Centre Plot. I shall describe each part in turn.

Sengkang Riverside Park: Visitor Centre Plot

The Sengkang Riverside Park car park, available on the northern side of Anchorvale Street, is presently open for use without charge. There are also parking lots for buses. This would be useful for organisers to use Sengkang Riverside Park for large public or private entertainment functions.

First time visitors to Sengkang Riverside Park will be impressed with several physical features here.

The first feature to impress visitors is the brand-new Visitor Centre. This building at Sengkang Riverside Park has a huge open space under its distinctive curved roof that reminds me of the dorsal curve on a fish. There is shop space for a cafe or restaurant and sitting space for outdoor dining with a pleasant park view.

Another feature that visitors may like about Sengkang Riverside Park is the presence of a pond filled with small fishes. It lies at the bottom of a slope from the Visitor Centre. A prominent no-fishing sign hangs beside this pond.

Photo: Sengkang Riverside Park Scene.

The small hill with a terrace-like slope is another unusual characteristic of this park. I think young saplings of fruit trees have been planted at Sengkang Riverside Park although I could not identify most of them.

Photo: Another Sengkang Riverside Park scene.

On hot and sunny days, visitors will be pleased with the shade provided by an atypical bamboo shelter smack in the middle of Sengkang Riverside Park. Elsewhere, trees that one can find at Sengkang Riverside Park are too small to provide much shade. On the plus side, I think kite flying will likely be popular at Sengkang Riverside Park precisely because of the absence of tall branches to put kites at risk.

(to be continued)

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Latest Singapore Places To See: Sengkang Riverside Park

Latest Singapore Places To See: Sengkang Riverside Park

According to URA Draft Masterplan 2008 in its special and detailed controls plans for Parks & Waterbodies Plan, this park in Sengkang will be called Sengkang Riverside Park. It will soon be one of the latest Singapore places to see when it is ready for park users.

This latest Singapore place to see is bounded by Tampines Expressway to the north, the Sengkang Eastway to the south, Fernvale Street to the west, and parts of Sungei Punggol, Anchorvale Crescent and Anchorvale Street to the east.

Three areas to see at this park in Singapore have been marked on a plan, hung outside the construction site. The Sengkang Riverside Park will have a Visitor Centre as seen in the photograph with the sheltered pavilion, a mangrove plot for nature walks and a civic plot presumably to house playgrounds, fitness equipment and the usual park amenities.

My photographs are unfortunately not the latest as they were taken in May 2008 but I’m sure there will be more progress by now. I am waiting with eager breath to see the latest park blossom in Singapore’s Sengkang Riverside Park.

You may like other places to see that are near to rivers:
1. Anchorvale Street Bridge
2. Esplanade Park Singapore

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