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so I rewatched A Scandal in Belgravia last night and brilliant episode. but I was so asexual that at age fifteen when I first watched it I didn't actually pick up on WHY everyone thought that sherlock's ringtone was so rude. I know now but it went entirely over my head

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Charlotte understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn’t a compliment to a woman, it’s more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.

“For a woman raised to be purely ornamental, marriage is her livelihood. If Lady Ingram hadn’t married for money she would have been a fool.” “So you truly don’t despise Lady Ingram?” “For making rational choices for herself? No, I do not despise her. I do not applaud her, but I do not find her decision to marry the richest man interested in her reprehensible.”

A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas

Mrs. Watson had once relayed to Charlotte an opinion on an adolescent Lady Ingram, by a woman who had worked for the Grevilles. Her main impression of Lady Ingram at that age was one of frustration. A frustration that approached rage, at times. Lady Ingram hadn’t been angry because she’d wished to marry a different man, as Mrs. Watson had thought at the time, but because her life hadn’t been her own. Charlotte did not pity Lady Ingram—the woman played no small role in her own fate. But she sometimes thought of the former Miss Alexandra Greville, brought to London and told to smile, told to be happy that an eligible man loved her, told that upon marriage she would have everything a woman could desire. When it should have been obvious to all who knew her that such a life would unravel her. Yet they’d pushed it on her with all their might—and made it plain that for her to do anything else would be a gross betrayal to her family. Perhaps she had always been a monster, but even the lady monsters of the world couldn’t escape the expectations that came of being women.

Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

I love Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas. It's genderbent version of the OG Sherlock Holmes. The characters are intriguing, the plot is engaging and the romance while minimal leaves one yearning for more. There is friendship, sisterhood, mentorship, queer as well as autisitc and anxiety ridden characters, different perspectives from people who have lived varied lives, the feminism isn't too on nose. It's really good.

Though the one character I can't get out of my head is Alexandra Greville or as she is more commonly know Lady Ingram. Though unlike with Mrs. Watson who is bisexual, it's never specified that Charlotte is demisexual or that Former Lady Ingram she is aro-ace but it's the conclusion I've come to.

I truly love Lord Ingram or Ash as his friends call him, he is a good father, friend, person; in fact a literal green forest. But my heart breaks for this woman and all others in the past and present who are tied to the marriage yoke because it's the norm and good for them.

This doesn't mean I support her actions of being a spy for Moriarty, plotting her husband's murder, and even unknowingly giving up her sister's life to save her own but I can't ignore the fact that she did this to escape a life that was thrust upon her.

She could've done better, her actions are inexcusable but it's just not fair that women are confined to a certain life no matter the era.

And a standing ovation to Sherry Thomas for creating such compelling characters.

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How I landed BBC's car-crash Prince Andrew scoop - and now Billie Piper is playing me on Netflix, by SAM McALISTER

By Sam Mcalister

Published: 21:43 EDT, 25 March 2024

Thursday, November 14, 2019, and I’m in the South Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, with the back of Prince Andrew’s head to the left of my line of sight, and the presenter and interviewer Emily Maitlis — pen in hand, wearing a green khaki military jacket, black trousers and open-toe heeled boots — directly opposite me.

I’m a 46-year-old junior TV producer and this is about to become one of the most analysed and talked about broadcast moments ever.

I can barely breathe. It’s taken 13 months of painstaking negotiation, many conversations and meetings to make this moment happen — to convince Andrew to give his first ever sit-down interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. And to do it with the BBC’s Newsnight.

As the interview unfolds, each answer is more excruciating than the last. There are long periods where I just stare at the ornate carpet of that splendid room, desperate to collect myself and not react to what I am hearing.

Because it’s explosive stuff.

Today, Andrew’s answers have passed into comedic folklore and launched a thousand memes, but back then they are freshly shocking. When Emily presses him on the nature of the birthday party he’d hosted at Sandringham for Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell — currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for trafficking the women and girls Epstein sexually abused — the Prince replies that it was ‘a straightforward shooting weekend’.

And asked where he was on March 10, 2001, when Virginia Giuffre claimed he danced with her at Tramp nightclub in London’s Mayfair, then slept with her at Maxwell’s house in Belgravia, Andrew answers: ‘Pizza Express in Woking’.

‘I didn’t sweat at the time’, is his response to the suggestion that Giuffre remembered him perspiring profusely that night.

Every answer propels the interview into a new sphere of absurdity. Every answer convinces me this is the scoop of the year. By the end, I’m pretty sure it’s the scoop of the century.

The atmosphere as the cameras stop rolling is electric. All of the Newsnight team (from the Deputy Editor, Stewart Maclean, to the make-up woman, Cat Crawford) look shellshocked. I don’t know what to do with myself.

Surely Prince Andrew’s face will be ashen? He will be devastated by the experience...

On the contrary. As my eyes survey the room, I can see his beaming smile. It’s patently clear that not only does he think it’s gone well, he thinks he’s aced it.

So confident is he that he takes Emily on a tour of the palace. I decline, keen to get back to the office and the calming presence of Newsnight editor Esme Wren.

Those iconic shots of Emily and HRH striding down the Palace Hall were taken after the interview had ended. Zoom in on Andrew’s face: see how pleased he is with his performance.

It wasn’t long, however, before the slew of national and global headlines that pilloried him burst his bubble. Not one piece of coverage was positive.

Commentators, newspapers and broadcasters across the world were united in a single thought: the Duke of York had made an appalling mistake. He had gone from being a largely forgotten man to a global pariah. And he was about to be unceremoniously put out in the cold.

On November 20, 2019, just four days after the Newsnight interview had aired, the announcement came: Andrew was to ‘step back from public duties for the foreseeable future’. The Queen’s favourite son had effectively been sacked by his own mother.

Although Andrew has never faced a criminal court, the court of public opinion has drawn its own conclusions.

Before becoming a TV producer, I trained and worked as a criminal barrister, and believe me, that interview was a prosecutor’s dream. There were just so many details that, if untrue, could be fact-checked and disproved.

Today, the Prince still vehemently denies he was involved in any wrongdoing. In 2022, however, he made a civil settlement, reportedly of around £12million with Virginia Giuffre, who has said that he sexually assaulted her on three separate occasions. The out-of-court settlement was reached on the basis that the Prince accepted no liability.

So our Newsnight interview certainly had very expensive consequences: it probably hastened that settlement with Giuffre.

For me, too, there have been consequences. The day after we recorded the interview, Esme, tweeted, ‘Full credit to our indefatigable interview producer @SamMcAlister1 for securing this world exclusive’.

Giving producers credit is a rarity in our industry, and the Press picked it up. I got my 15 seconds of recognition, then it was just back to work as usual.

Of course, I asked for a pay rise after the interview, but I didn’t get one. As a part-time junior producer whose job it was to negotiate interviews with everyone from tech billionaire Elon Musk to actress Amy Schumer, I was never on more than ten per cent of the presenter’s salary.

That didn’t change. I worked behind the scenes and didn’t expect to be given a share of the limelight. Admittedly I had never really played the BBC game — I didn’t know the right people, I didn’t toe the line.

And, in my leather trousers and snakeskin boots, I certainly didn’t dress the way most people at the BBC dressed. Then there was also my need to be home to care for my son, who was only three when I started at Newsnight.

All of which probably contributed to the fact that, even though I’d been on the team for ten years, I never really progressed professionally before the Prince Andrew interview. However, I did not progress afterwards either, and that didn’t feel right.

For the next few years, I got through Covid — which meant a prolonged period of sickness and the long days of homeschooling — and returned to work when the world re-opened.

Although a pay rise and promotion were still not forthcoming, everywhere I went, people told me: ‘You should write a book about what happened!’

Eventually, I decided to do just that. It was my hope that, like many correspondents and presenters, I could write it while still working at the BBC, but it was made clear that wasn’t an option. So I managed to find a literary agent, gave up my staff job and risked it all. I took a chance on people being interested in what I had to say — the story of an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation.

I secured a little advance, tapped away on my laptop on the sofa late at night, and called my book Scoops. I hoped a few people would buy it. It was the best decision I have ever made.

The book was serialised in the Mail. I held my breath. I was trepidatious that the Palace and the BBC might cause some issues. They were both Goliath to my tiny David, but somewhat surprisingly, I didn’t hear anything.

There was, however, a flurry of interest elsewhere — a Channel 4 documentary, some media appearances, a few articles, all culminating in the dream of any author: the offer to have your book turned into a Netflix movie, with me as executive producer.

Which is how I came to find myself explaining the exact process by which the interview occurred to top TV screenwriter Peter Moffat, of Silk and Your Honour fame. How, in the beginning, the BBC had turned Prince Andrew down.

In October 2018, a PR company working with Andrew sent me the offer of an interview with him about his charitable pursuits. A ‘puff piece’, where you basically spend time with the subject but don’t get to ask any real questions. We didn’t do those on Newsnight, so I declined, but kept the conversation going.

Months passed, and then came an invite for me to go to Buckingham Palace to meet his chief of staff, Amanda Thirsk (who is played by Keeley Hawes in the movie).

I took the bus to the palace, and didn’t even tell my boss I was going, I was so certain nothing would come of it. I took a few selfies in the waiting room (irresistible when left alone with a phone) and talked to Amanda for hours.

But then came a red line. Prince Andrew’s association with the businessman Jeffrey Epstein, then a free man, but with a past conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, was considered a no-go area. And so, again, we declined.

Then things got frenzied. Epstein was finally re-arrested in July 2019. He was charged and awaiting trial for sex trafficking of minors when suddenly in August came news of his death, apparently by his own hand.

Ghislaine Maxwell, at large for many years, was tracked down in 2020, arrested and charged, too. The FBI was very interested in speaking with Prince Andrew. Virginia Giuffre announced she was bringing a new lawsuit, and doing interviews, and the pressure on Andrew became intense.

I kept trying for the interview, week after week, month after month. Finally, in October 2019, came an invitation to return to see Amanda, and a face-to-face with Prince Andrew himself in November.

It was the first time I had ever met him and he was exactly as I had imagined from my research — a high-energy man, full of confidence and sporadic laughter. He was surprisingly congenial and open given the circumstances.

Rammed into a tiny room in Buckingham Palace, the three Newsnighters (me, Emily and Deputy Editor Stewart) faced Andrew, Amanda and a very unexpected guest — his elder daughter, Princess Beatrice.

She was dressed in navy blue, asked sensible questions about the possible logistics, and it was clear, she was close to her father and concerned for his welfare. The discussion was frank, firm, sometimes funny.

My background — I am from a family of East End market traders, coupled with my legal training — seemed to work a charm.

The argument was simple: the country probably mostly considered him guilty, and the solution was to give an account of himself. I’m not sure how Emily and Stewart felt when I mentioned his ‘Randy Andy’ nickname, but he laughed and I hoped against hope that we had convinced him.

Less than 24 hours later we received a ‘yes’ and just three days later we were back at the palace, armed with the cameras.

Two days later, I watched it go out in a special Saturday edition of Newsnight. I was at my boyfriend’s house in East London, where I was too nervous even to sit down. At last, all my work was paying off, and spectacularly.

What I hadn’t expected was that one interview would take over the next five years of my life.

This time last year I was on a film set watching myself being played by Billie Piper for Scoop — the Netflix dramatisation of the story.

The first time Billie and I met, we went for dinner and she thoroughly grilled me — about my job, my family and my life. She hadn’t played a real person before and said she wanted to do me justice.

Watching her on set was uncanny. She had perfected my bouncy walk to match my bouncy curls, even accepting my need to be decked head-to-toe in black with lashings of lip-gloss, those snakeskin boots and sunglasses.

In fact, costume and make-up on the film did such a stellar job that some of the crew members couldn’t tell us apart.

The day filming outside the BBC was particularly memorable. It was the first time in a couple of years that I’d been back to my old office. Who would have thought I’d return to shoot a film about my time there? It was next level surreal.

I’m not embarrassed to admit that I shed a tear watching Billie that day. One minute the actress was playing me outside the BBC offices, the next she was chatting with my fake mum and having a kebab with my fake son (played by an adorable boy called Zach Colton).

My real-life son is proud but, like most teens, declined to come on set and be fussed over.

My mum, Netta, came to meet her alter ego, Amanda Redman, who was absolutely wonderful to her. The happiness and pride Mum felt for me that day was very special to see. Without her help in caring for my son when I worked at the BBC, I don’t know how I would ever have managed.

As for Prince Andrew, I was 15ft behind him again. But this time, he was being played by the actor Rufus Sewell — his handsome features covered in swathes of prosthetics — and a new Emily, played by Gillian Anderson. The same clothes, same words, same steely determination, same gaze.

And that’s my film. But what of the other dramatic rendering of the interview? There’s been a lot of speculation about rival versions, with Emily Maitlis also an executive producer on a series called A Very Royal Scandal, which will come out later this year on Amazon Prime, starring Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew.

I heard about it first in the news last year. We had already started filming Scoop at the time.

Some newspapers like to talk of an enmity between us, a ‘Battle of the Blondes’, but I’m sorry to disappoint — I wish Emily nothing but happiness and success, and can’t wait to see if someone is playing ‘me’.

Now it feels as though my life is on the cusp of something new. There’s uncertainty and excitement. Friends and strangers are wishing me tons of luck, although no doubt some quarters won’t like the fact I’m speaking out about the story again.

I’ve had to grow a thicker skin. My plan is to concentrate on enjoying every magical moment. Appreciate it all. Enjoy my second 15 seconds of glamorous parties, film premieres, photo-shoots, martinis at posh bars...

Then it will be back to normal life, hustling for work, keynote-speaking, chatting with my new students at the LSE, where I’m a visiting senior fellow in the law department.

And then back on the bus, lashings of lip-gloss, off for a kebab, with a big smile on my face.

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On this date in music history….

March 8th

2016 - AC/DC

AC/DC postponed the rest of their current US tour after singer Brian Johnson was warned he was going deaf. The band posted a statement on their website saying doctors had advised Johnson to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss.

2016 - George Martin

English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician, Sir George Martin died aged 90. He worked as EMI records in-house record producer and became known as the so-called fifth Beatle. Martin produced all but one of The Beatles albums giving him 30 No.1 hit singles in the UK and 23 No.1 hits in the US. He also produced many other acts including: Matt Monro, Cilla Black, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, The Fourmost, Jeff Beck, Ultravox, Kenny Rogers, UFO, Cheap Trick, Elton John and Celine Dion. Martin received a Knighthood in 1996.

2009 - The Who

A blue plaque in honour of The Who drummer Keith Moon was unveiled on the site of The Marquee Club in Soho, London, where in 1964 the band played the first of 29 gigs there. Fans on scooters turned up to pay tribute to Moon, who was 32 when he died of an accidental overdose in 1978. The blue plaque, which means the site is of historic importance, was awarded by the Heritage Foundation.

2003 - Mark Knopfler

Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was injured when the Honda motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a Fiat Punto car. The 53-year-old singer and guitarist suffered a broken collar bone and six broken ribs in the accident which happened in London's smart Belgravia district in mid-morning traffic.

1990 - Cher

Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time', in The Rolling Stone Magazine's awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.

1986 - Diana Ross

Diana Ross was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the 'Chain Reaction.' Written and produced by The Bee Gees (who also provided the backing vocals for the single). The single became her first No.1 single in the UK since 'I'm Still Waiting' in 1971.

1973 - Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn't know what they would grow.

1973 - Ron Mckernan

American singer and musician Ron McKernan died aged 27 from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning. He was a founding member and keyboard player with the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972. Unlike the other members of the Grateful Dead, McKernan avoided psychedelic drugs, preferring to drink alcohol (namely whiskey and flavored fortified wine). By 1971, his health had been affected by alcoholism and liver damage and doctors advised him to stop touring.

1969 - Small Faces

Small Faces split up after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band to form Humble Pie. Small Faces scored the hit songs 'Itchycoo Park', 'Lazy Sunday', 'All or Nothing', and 'Tin Soldier', as well as their concept album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. Members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed the Faces.

1968 - Cream

Cream played the first of two nights at at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California. The concert was recorded with some tracks ending up on their 'Wheels Of Fire' double album.

1965 - Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's single Subterranean Homesick Blues was released in the US. The lead track from his Bringing It All Back Home album, gave Dylan his first top 40 hit. Subterranean Homesick Blues is also noted for its innovative film clip, in what became one of the first 'modern' promotional film clips. The clip was shot in an alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London, the cue cards which Dylan holds were written by Donovan, Allen Ginsberg, and Dylan himself.

1965 - David Bowie

David Bowie made his TV debut with The Manish Boys on a UK program called 'Gadzooks! It's All Happening' when they performed their current single 'I Pity The Fool.'

1962 - Roy Orbison

The Beatles made their radio debut on the BBC's 'Teenagers Turn', (Here We Go), singing Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby'. It was reportedly the first time The Beatles wore suits onstage.

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I just rewatched “A Scandal in Belgravia” which is possibly my favorite Sherlock episode, because brainy is indeed the new sexy and I love me a strong, confident female character. I’m rewatching the series because I feel that Sherlock is actually autistic, despite his claims of sociopathy. But this episode deals specifically with sex and relationships, and I was always torn regarding Sherlock’s behavior when I blithely assumed he was in fact sociopathic as he claimed. Silly me, I gotta stop taking characters’ words for things. #unreliablenarratormuch

Let me preface my observations by saying that, as an ace person myself, it’s embarrassing that I didn’t pick up on Sherlock’s acery before now. However, that’s likely due to the fact that ace folks of any stripe just do not get portrayed in mainstream media and storytelling. Sex sells, and we don’t want any. Alas, a lament for another time. Because Sherlock is, in fact, ace. The Virgin, by choice.

But I’ll tell you, as an ace, I have gotten my share of squishes. Squishes are basically aesthetic crushes, where a person’s style, personality, etc, just clicks with you, like love at first sight sometimes, but you don’t wanna bed them or even date them. You just wanna hang out and bask in their presence, where snuggling or dramatic pulse-taking are optional. That’s a squish. IMHO it stems from the same place as other people’s crushes and lust. It’s an expression of our desire to be social, to be with someone who is like us in some way. It’s an impulse driven by our drive to connect as a social animal. We just wanna be with someone in a way that makes us feel not alone.

Sherlock, being autistic, has possibly never in his life felt a squish before. He’s very different and he knows it. What connection could he possibly have, especially with a non-autistic, non-genius human being? But don’t despair, Sherlock. You don’t actually know everything. 

See, Irene Adler gets a squish on him, too. She’s gay. She doesn’t want to topple Sherlock into bed for her own personal pleasure. That’s just her job talking. That’s how she usually expresses connection. Sex is her most common connection to other people because of her work. But she’s really clever, and that cleverness doesn’t really fit into her day job--it just keeps her alive. She prepares carefully for her first meeting with Sherlock, because she wants to connect with him on a level she rarely gets to share with anyone.

An asexual autistic genius and a lesbian dominatrix. Most people might think that’s a romance doomed from the start. But they’re not looking at all the clues. It’s a relationship of appreciation and connection and respect. They see each other as they truly are, and they accept each other, flaws and all. 

You won’t find a relationship better than that, sex or no. It’s not doomed. It’s complete.

All the parts where Sherlock and Irene lean close Do Things To Me™, because seeing them revel in their shared squish is the happiest thing I can imagine. Sherlock literally doesn’t know what to do with a gorgeous, interested female, though. He sounds like he’s honestly piecing his sentences together one word at a time because he’s calculating them and judging her reaction at every step. 

“She’s awfully close to my face right now. But she said she’s gay. Was that a lie? I’d better check her pulse to find out. Solid information will help me make better decisions here, because I’m entirely out of my depth. And I’d better slide my hand onto her wrist softly because she’s used to being the one in charge and I don’t want to get smacked with a riding crop a second time. That hurt.”

At the end, when Sherlock practically begs John for Irene’s phone, just as a souvenir, and he stretches his hand out, all long fingers and open palm and slender wrist, God. She’s climbed inside his soul. He needs to keep her there. Her phone is a talisman, protecting and reinforcing all his memories and impressions, his recollection of her every word. She is The Woman™ because she’s the only person he’s ever squished on in his life. She is special. She saw him for who he was and never judged him harshly, never disappointed him, never struggled to keep up. Even John, bless his good soul, hasn’t been that accommodating. 

It literally does not matter to Sherlock that Irene betrayed him and partnered up with Moriarty the whole time. She acted to save his life by contacting Moriarty just before he was going to shoot Sherlock at the pool. She never put on a mask to hide her true self out of fear or for the benefit of those around her. She lived truly, embracing all of herself. Sherlock does the same. In his mind, they are cut from the same cloth. A stylish coat and its flamboyant scarf. They match.

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Freehold status | Exclusive strata housing development | Semi-detached and terrace houses | Along Ang Mo Kio ​Avenue 5 / Belgravia Drive | Private residential enclave | Developed by Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Project Description of Belgravia Ace Freehold Project

Project Details of Belgravia Ace Project Name: Belgravia Ace

Developer: Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Description: Proposed development comprising terraces and semi-detached.

Location: Belgravia Drive off Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5

District: 28

Site Area: Approx. 26,000 sqm

Tenure: Freehold

Expected TOP: TBC

Unit Mix: TBC

​​Car Park Capacity : TBC

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Freehold status | Exclusive strata housing development | Semi-detached and terrace houses | Along Ang Mo Kio ​Avenue 5 / Belgravia Drive | Private residential enclave | Developed by Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Project Description of Belgravia Ace Freehold Project

Project Details of Belgravia Ace Project Name: Belgravia Ace

Developer: Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Description: Proposed development comprising terraces and semi-detached.

Location: Belgravia Drive off Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5

District: 28

Site Area: Approx. 26,000 sqm

Tenure: Freehold

Expected TOP: TBC

Unit Mix: TBC

​​Car Park Capacity : TBC

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Freehold status | Exclusive strata housing development | Semi-detached and terrace houses | Along Ang Mo Kio ​Avenue 5 / Belgravia Drive | Private residential enclave | Developed by Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Project Description of Belgravia Ace Freehold Project

Project Details of Belgravia Ace Project Name: Belgravia Ace

Developer: Fairview Developments Pte Ltd (A unit of Tong Eng Group)

Description: Proposed development comprising terraces and semi-detached.

Location: Belgravia Drive off Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5

District: 28

Site Area: Approx. 26,000 sqm

Tenure: Freehold

Expected TOP: TBC

Unit Mix: TBC

​​Car Park Capacity : TBC

Belgravia Ace Showflat