Rivervale is a neighbourhood of
Sengkang New Town located between
Sungei Serangoon
Sungei Serangoon (Malay language, Malay for Serangoon River; Simplified Chinese, Chinese: 实龙岗河) is a river in the North-East Region, Singapore, north-eastern part of Singapore. The 8-kilometre river starts as a canal near Tampines Road, a ...
and
Compassvale
Compassvale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town, and is located between Rivervale and Anchorvale. Compassvale encompasses the Sengkang Town Centre.
History
There used to be a few low-rise flats along Punggol Road with a defunct road na ...
. The block numbers of the public apartment blocks in Rivervale begin with the number '1' (1xx). Rivervale was the first neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town to be built, and many of the existing housing estates in Rivervale were completed by the
Housing and Development Board
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(HDB) as early as 1997.
Educational institutions
Primary schools
*North Spring Primary School
*Rivervale Primary School
Secondary schools
*
CHIJ Saint Joseph's Convent
CHIJ Saint Joseph's Convent is a government-aided Catholic girls' secondary school in Sengkang, Singapore. The school is one of 11 Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) schools in Singapore.
History
The school was founded in 1938, as a privat ...
*
North Vista Secondary School
Places of worship
Chinese temples
* Chong Ghee Temple (崇义庙)
* Kampong Tengah Thian Hou Keng (半港天后宫)
* Chong Hua Tong Tou Teck Hwee Temple
Church
St Anne's Church
Indian temple
* Arulmigu Velmurugan Gnanamuneeswarar Temple
Shopping amenities
*Rivervale Plaza
:Rivervale Plaza (
Chinese
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* Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China.
**'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...
: 鲤河大厦) was the first shopping mall in Sengkang New Town. It opened in mid 1999.
*Rivervale Mall
:Rivervale Mall () is the first private mixed development in Sengkang New Town and opened on 21 April 2001, with about 85,000 square feet (7,900 m
2) of retail space. The development has a modern architectural design. Retail units include
NTUC FairPrice
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,
McDonald's
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, Food Junction,
KFC
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and EC House.
Other facilities
*Rivervale Community Club
The Rivervale Community Centre was official opened on 20 June 2004. Its original site was at the foot of Block 193 Rivervale Drive, it had served the residents for many years at the location before being relocated to its current site with its own building behind Rivervale Plaza.
The new building, which had its groundbreaking ceremony on 16 September 2018, is constructed with Mass Engineered Timber (MET); a first for such buildings in Singapore. The community club was completed and opened on 15 September 2021. It will have much more and bigger communal facilities as compared to its previous location, a childcare centre and a rooftop garden.
Public transport
The Rivervale neighbourhood is linked to
Sengkang Bus Interchange and
Sengkang MRT/LRT station
Sengkang MRT/LRT station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) interchange station in Sengkang, Singapore. It is an interchange between the North East line (NEL) and Sengkang LRT (SKLRT). Along with Buangkok station, i ...
at the town centre via bus services originating from the
Sengkang Bus Interchange and other parts of the island. The east loop of the
Sengkang LRT line
The Sengkang LRT line (SKLRT) is a elevated automated guideway transit line in Sengkang, Singapore. The driverless system consists of 14 stations on two loops, with Sengkang station serving as the interchange for both loops and linking the ...
also serves the area at the
Rumbia,
Bakau
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and
Kangkar stations.
Bus services that call at a pair of bus stops located along the
TPE TPE may refer to:
Places
* Taipei (ISO 3166 code: TW-TPE), the capital of Taiwan
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Science and technology
* TPE (cable system ...
-Punggol Road Interchange also serves residents living in the vicinity, at the Sengkang-Punggol boundary.
Gallery
Transport infrastructure
File:Kangkar LRT Station, Oct 06.JPG, Kangkar LRT station
Educational institutions
File:North Vista Secondary School.jpg, North Vista Secondary School
File:North Vista Secondary School, Nov 06.JPG, North Vista Secondary School
File:NorthVistaSecondary.JPG, North Vista Secondary School (Inner Rotunda Courtyard)
Housing estates
File:Park Green, Nov 06.JPG, Park Green
File:Rivervale Court, Sep 06.JPG, Rivervale Court
File:Rivervale Court 2, Sep 06.JPG, Rivervale Court
File:Rivervale Edge, Oct 06.JPG, Rivervale Edge
File:Rivervale Gardens, Oct 06.JPG, Rivervale Gardens
File:Rivervale Grove, Sep 06.JPG, Rivervale Grove
File:The Rivervale, Nov 06.JPG, The Rivervale
File:The Rivervale 2, Nov 06.JPG, The Rivervale
References
External links
{{Places in Singapore
Sengkang
Places in Singapore