Condo floor plan Singapore

A Singapore condo floor plan comes from one of four places, and each holds a different document: your MCST or managing agent, BCA for the approved architectural and structural drawings, URA for the planning records, and SLA for your unit's strata boundaries and areas. Fees, eligibility and waiting times differ at every one.

Most people asking this question want one thing: a dimensioned drawing of the unit they own. No Singapore agency sells exactly that. What the agencies sell are records created for their own regulatory purpose, and matching your need to the right record is the whole job. Get it wrong and you pay a non-refundable search fee for a document that does not answer your question.

Four routes, four different documents

Fees as published by BCA and URA on 14 August 2026. Fees change: confirm the current figure on the agency's own page before you pay.

Route A: BCA, for the approved building and structural drawings

BCA's Plan Purchase System sits at bca.gov.sg/pps. It charges two separate fees, and confusing them is the single most common error in third-party write-ups. BCA states a "Search Fee: $45.00 (Inclusive of GST) Per Address (payable upon application)" and a separate "Plan Purchase Fee: $65.00 (Inclusive of GST) Per Plan Reference Number (per set) (payable after selection of plans for purchase)". You pay S$45 to find out whether plans exist, then S$65 for each plan reference number you decide to buy. A property can carry several plan reference numbers, so the second fee is not necessarily paid once.

On timing, read BCA's wording carefully: "If the application is in order, we will contact you within 10 working days on the availability of the plans." Ten working days is the time to be told whether anything exists, not the time to receive drawings.

For a strata unit, the eligible applicant is the registered proprietor (BCA's Type 1), the MCST Chairman (Type 3), or an authorised person acting for either (Type 4). BCA also has an older Legal Search route, still reachable, with a lower fee schedule, and that is where many of the conflicting figures quoted online come from. The divergence, and the eligibility gap it opens for prospective purchasers, is set out in full on BCA plan purchase.

Route B: URA Buy Planning Records (DC 15)

URA holds the planning side of the record: the Grant of Written Permission and the plans approved under it. The e-service is Buy Planning Records, official designation DC 15, at eservice.ura.gov.sg/buyplanningrecords, with help and FAQ pages on ura.gov.sg. Quote the DC 15 designation when you contact URA: it is the closest thing to a form number anywhere in this process.

What URA charges

• Search fee: "$109.00 (inclusive of 9% GST)" per application.
• Per set of approved plans, or of the Grant of Written Permission: "$27.25 inclusive of 9% GST".
• Certifying a true copy of an approved plan: "$5.45 inclusive of 9% GST per sheet".
• Certifying a true copy of a Grant or Refusal from pre-1990 records: "$5.45 inclusive of 9% GST per sheet".

URA quotes GST explicitly at 9%, and its search fee is more than double BCA's. Readers routinely assume one government search fee exists. It does not, and if you need both the building drawings and the planning approval you pay both agencies.

What you receive, and when

URA sells copies of approved plans in PDF, certified true copies of approved plans in hardcopy, and certified true copies of the Grant of Written Permission or Refusal. Unlike BCA, URA is explicit that a certified option exists. Its FAQ states: "We will notify you by email once the search results are ready within 10 working days."

Consent, and the part that catches people out

URA's help page says the service is open to all users, but "if you are not the owner of the property, you must obtain written consent from the owner." The FAQ goes further and requires proof of property ownership, for example a Property Tax Bill, together with either written consent from both the architect or professional engineer and the person who engaged them, or a letter of authorisation from the property owner. One URA document extract, which we could not reproduce on URA's live pages, adds that MCST consent or endorsement is required where the owner is a subsidiary proprietor, and that a set of plans includes both the proposal plan and the sketch plan approved under one Written Permission. Treat those two points as unconfirmed and put them to URA before relying on them.

The fee is gone either way

URA's FAQ is blunt: "The fees paid is not refundable or transferable regardless of whether the search is unsuccessful; or if the application is withdrawn at any point in time." Its terms add that "The Customer shall have no right to any refund for payment made for the Service once URA has started to process the Services", though written refund requests may be considered case by case. Budget on the assumption that the search fee is spent whether or not it produces a document.

What you may do with the plans afterwards

URA's terms state that the materials "shall not be reproduced or used by the Customer for any other purpose unless with the prior written approval of URA", and that all intellectual property in them belongs to URA. URA also disclaims accuracy: it "makes no warranty that the Services, software or information or materials provided will be uninterrupted, timely, accurate, reliable, secure or error free and expressly disclaims all liability whatsoever." If your plan is to circulate a purchased plan to a wider project team, or to publish it, check with URA first.

Route C: your MCST or managing agent

In a strata development the MCST commonly holds the building's plan set, and asking the managing agent first costs nothing. That is practical advice rather than a right: we could not verify whether an MCST is obliged to provide plans to a subsidiary proprietor on request, or what it may charge, so do not assume either.

What is established is that the MCST Chairman is an eligible Type 3 applicant at BCA in their own right, and that a unit owner can be authorised by the MCST as a Type 4 applicant. If the MCST has nothing on file, it can still unlock the BCA route for you.

Route D: the developer

For a recent development, the developer or its appointed architect may still hold the sales-stage and as-built drawings, and it is worth asking. Treat it as nothing more than that. No authority page establishes a right to obtain plans from a developer, any timeframe, or any fee, and there is no established retention period you can hold a developer to.

Route E: SLA, for strata boundaries and areas

The Singapore Land Authority holds Certified Plans (CP) for land parcels, Strata Certified Plans (CPST) for strata lots, Registrar of Title Plans (RT) and cadastral maps, all in electronic format and available to the general public through INLIS. SLA states that cadastral maps are updated as soon as survey plans are approved by the Chief Surveyor.

The CPST is the document to ask for when the question is "what is my unit's actual area?". SLA confirms that a strata certified plan includes tables showing the floor area, the void area where there is one, and the sub-total area of each storey.

The caveat matters more than the document. A CP or CPST establishes boundaries and areas. It is not a floor plan in the sense most readers mean, and it will not show your internal walls, your door swings or your ceiling heights. If you are reconciling an area figure, this is the authority. If you are planning a renovation, it is not.

Landed property: URA's plan lodgment pack

A landed house is a different regime. A&A works to a landed house go through URA's plan lodgment route, and submissions must be made by a Qualified Professional, meaning a registered architect or engineer. The lodgment pack comprises:

• a Proposal Plan endorsed by the QP, with an owner's consent letter;
• a Sketch Plan showing floor plans, sections and elevations with dimensions, which may show "additions and alterations of the affected areas only";
• a Site Coverage Calculation Plan for detached and linked houses;
• a declaration of compliance with the lodgment criteria;
• PE certification where existing non-compliant structures are retained;
• a URA waiver approval where the guidelines are not met.

URA's same page directs applicants to apply separately to BCA where BCA's approval is required. Planning lodgment and building control approval are distinct processes with distinct submissions, which is covered in A&A works in Singapore.

Note what that pack demands: dimensioned floor plans, sections and elevations, and where existing structures are retained, PE certification of them. Both require knowledge of the house as it stands today, not as it was approved decades ago.

What none of these routes gives you

Every route above returns a record of what was approved. None of them returns a record of what is there. That gap is not a technicality: BCA's own periodic inspection regime exists partly to test for the divergence between approved plans and built reality, which tells you how routinely the two differ.

The archive is the right answer when you need:

• the approved design, or proof of what was permitted, for a dispute;
• a Written Permission for a change-of-use or an A&A submission;
• your unit's official strata area, which is the CPST from SLA.

Measurement is the right answer when:

• you have bought the plans and they do not match the unit, which is common in older condos and in units that have changed hands several times;
• your QP needs existing-condition drawings for an A&A submission, because a landed lodgment pack alone needs dimensioned floor plans, sections and elevations plus PE certification of retained structures;
• the MCST needs a current record of common property for a reinstatement dispute, an insurance valuation, or a repainting or re-cladding contract;
• you are reconciling area between a strata certified plan, a marketing brochure and the physical unit;
• the search comes back empty and the fee is not refundable, at which point you have spent S$109 or S$45 and still have nothing.

That last case is the one worth planning for in advance. Where the record fails, as-built documentation produces a measured drawing set of the unit or the building as it stands, which is what a QP, a managing agent or a contractor can actually work from. The full decision tree, including what the regulations say when plans cannot be obtained, is on what to do when the floor plan is missing or wrong. If you would rather talk it through first, tell us the development and what the drawings are for.