Inspiring HDB corridor gardens: Families, neighbours bond while growing plants outside flats

(Clockwise from left) Mr Alan Tai and his mother Mdm Loo Kon Yen, Mr David Toh, Mrs Chia Phay Eng (right) and neighbour Mrs Tan. ST PHOTOS: ARTHUR SIM
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SINGAPORE – If you live in a Housing Board flat, you can grow plants in your corridor. You just have to observe some simple rules, like maintaining a clear passageway.

Mrs Chia Phay Eng takes these rules very seriously. She uses a measuring tape to ensure a minimum width of 1.2m for the clearance required to hang planters in the corridor outside her HDB flat in Queenstown.

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