Location

Bassein Road

Eight to twelve minutes’ walk to Novena MRT, beside HealthCity Novena.

Artist’s impression supplied by the developer. Not a photograph of the completed building.

Getting around

Eight minutes to Novena, or twelve

There are two ways to walk to Novena station on the North-South Line, and they are not the same walk. Out of Akyab Road and through the NTF Centre for Innovation Healthcare into the TTSH hospital walkways, which run underground to the station, is 650–800m and 8 to 10 minutes. The surface route — Bassein Road, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Sinaran Drive to Exit A — is 800–950m and 10 to 12 minutes.

The link walk is open 24/7, and the honest caveat is at this end of it: there is no sheltered footpath from the development to the underpass. The shelter starts once you are inside.

The nearest bus stops are on Balestier Road, about 351m, and Moulmein Road, about 442m. Vehicles enter from Bassein Road and the service route is off Akyab Road; there are two side gates on Akyab Road and one on Jalan Tan Tock Seng.

By car it is the Central Expressway for the CBD, with Thomson Road and Balestier Road either side, and the North-South Corridor under construction along Thomson Road — a 21.5km route that will change how this stretch drives north.

Schools

Checked twice, not taken from the brochure

Every band below was read from OneMap’s School Query and from MOE’s SchoolFinder on 12 September 2026, for 7 Bassein Road. The two agree school for school.

Primary school	Home-school distance
Hong Wen School	Within 1 km
St. Joseph's Institution Junior	Within 1 km
Anglo-Chinese School (Junior)	1–2 km
Anglo-Chinese School (Primary)	1–2 km
Bendemeer Primary School	1–2 km
CHIJ Primary (Toa Payoh)	1–2 km
Farrer Park Primary School	1–2 km
Kheng Cheng School	1–2 km
Pei Chun Public School	1–2 km
St Andrew's School (Junior)	1–2 km

Two of them are on MOE’s two-track list. Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) and Anglo-Chinese School (Primary) are among the 12 schools where Phase 2C splits into a within-2km track and a beyond-2km track from the 2027 Primary 1 registration exercise, with no priority for being inside 1km. This address is in the 1–2km band of both, so from that exercise it competes in the same track as homes at the school gate. What the change means for buyers.

Bands are from the June 2026 data, for children entering Primary 1 in 2027, and are refreshed once a year. Check your own unit address in the year you register.

The neighbourhood

Healthcare on one side, shopping on the other

HealthCity Novena

The National Skin Centre, National Neuroscience Institute, Ren Ci Hospital and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases are all a few minutes’ walk. Tan Tock Seng is about ten minutes, Mount Elizabeth Novena about eight.

Everyday shopping

Square 2 and Velocity @ Novena Square sit at the station, with United Square and Goldhill Plaza beyond them, and Zhongshan Mall towards Balestier.

2 Moulmein Road

A new lifestyle hub is under construction nearby — retail, dining and everyday conveniences. It is not built yet, and the developer’s material is an artist’s impression of it.

Green space

Novena Park is about eight minutes’ walk, Zhongshan Park and Novena Rise Park about ten. The Whampoa Park Connector is a short drive, and the proposed Green Corridor runs west of the site.

Orchard and the CBD

Newton is one stop and Orchard two on the North-South Line. Far East’s own material puts the CBD at about ten minutes by car via the expressways — their estimate, not a measured one.

Higher education

The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU) is about three minutes’ walk, with the Future Medical Education & Training Development site beside it.