【国会发言】新加坡国会：组屋交房前注意检查停车场的联合现场检查

蔡庆威（盛港集选区议员）问国家发展部长

（a）组屋区域停车场和公共设施的维护协议中是否规定了由建屋发展局和有关市镇理事会联合进行交接前的现场检查？

（b）是否有建屋发展局停车场或住宅楼没有经过联合检查，而由市镇理事会开始维护的情况？

李智陞：根据市镇理事会法案，市镇理事会（TCs）负责管理和维护建屋发展局公共设施。在住宅楼完工前，建筑发展局将向市镇理事会介绍关键的移交细节，然后共同开展公共设施检查。这项由建屋发展局和市镇理事会联合进行的检查是在市镇理事会接管公共设施维护工作之前进行的。联合检查的目的是确定缺陷并解决市镇理事会提出的问题。

建屋发展局停车场不同于公共设施。市镇理事会代表建屋发展局依照双方达成的协议维护停车场。根据该协议，市镇理事会进行例行维护工作以保持建屋发展局停车场处于良好和可使用，清洁、适当的状态。当停车场完工并对公众开放时，建屋发展局将与相关市镇理事会进行联合检查。联合检查的目的主要是确定需要由建筑承包商整改的任何缺陷。联合检查后，检查表将由建屋发展局和市镇理事会签署认可。

有些停车场分阶段开放，以允许已经入住的居民尽快使用停车场。这些停车场将分阶段移交给市镇理事会，并在最终开放前进行联合检查。我们在2023年10月的一次回复中已经说明，在这种情况下，对每个阶段的开放进行联合检查可能不太实际，这是因为承包商的工人仍将进出停车场，停车场的其余部分仍在进行施工，因此在最终检查时明确承包商的缺陷责任会更为实际。市镇理事会也会事先被告知，在接管后发现任何问题，请提供缺陷详情给建屋发展局。

建屋发展局将继续与市镇理事会密切合作，确保设施的顺利移交，并在必要时完善移交流程。

Mr Chua Kheng Wee Louis asked the Minister for National Development (a) whether an agreement for the maintenance of parking spaces and common property of HDB residential blocks mandate joint site inspections to be conducted by both HDB and the relevant Town Council prior to a handover; and (b) whether there are instances where the maintenance of a HDB parking space or residential block by a Town Council had commenced without a joint inspection first being conducted.

Mr Desmond Lee: Under the Town Councils Act, Town Councils (TCs) are responsible for managing and maintaining the Housing & Development Board (HDB) common property. Prior to the completion of HDB residential blocks, HDB will brief the TC on key handover details, before conducting a joint inspection of the common property. This joint inspection by HDB and the TC is done prior to the commencement date upon which the TC will take over the maintenance of the common property. The purpose of the joint inspection is to identify defects and address issues raised by the TC.

 HDB car parks are not common property. TCs maintain HDB car parks on behalf of HDB under Maintenance Agreements between HDB and the TCs. Under these agreements, TCs carry out routine maintenance work, keep HDB car parks in a state of good and serviceable repair and maintain them in a clean and proper condition. HDB will initiate a joint inspection with the relevant TC when a car park is completed and opened for public use. The purpose of the joint inspection is primarily to identify any defects for rectification by the building contractor. After the joint inspection, the inspection form will be endorsed by both HDB and the TC.

 There are instances where car parks were opened in phases, to allow residents who have started moving in to use the car parks as soon as possible. These car parks were progressively handed over to the TCs in phases and joint inspections were held prior to the final phase of opening. We have stated in a previous reply in October 2023 that in such instances, it may not be practical to carry out joint inspections for every phase of opening. This is because contractors’ workers would still be going in and out of the car park due to ongoing works in other parts of the car park, and it would be more practical to carry out the final inspection at the end so that contractors’ defect liability is clearly laid out. The TCs are also informed upfront to note any defects that they discover after they take over and to provide the details of the defects to HDB.

 HDB will continue to work closely with the TCs to ensure smooth handovers for HDB developments and refine the handover process where necessary.