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All I could find are invisible grilles on the net but not what I am looking for as in the pic. I presume such design is approved by BCA. Any good recommendation will be appreciated.

Thanks Snooze for your advices. My neighbour a few doors away had done a rather major A&A to the old building including hacking down the front wall and replacing with a new one. The old front wall definitely then had the same set back as mine, ie.7.5m. Hence I find it intriguing to see a visible reduction in the front set back. One other question on the 1.8m height limit for the front boundary wall. Shld it be taken with respect to the street level or the building ground floor level? My ground floor is slightly elevated above the street with a ramp car porch but this was not captured well in the blue print which shows the ground floor to be at street level. I am planning to raise the height of the external front wall which is currently 1.8m from the street but much lower when measured from the building floor.

My neighbour is currently doing A&A and with the new front walls taking shape lately, I am surprised to find it is 1m more forward than mine which complied strictly to 7.5m setback requirement. I measured to confirm their front house setback is indeed 6.5m. Has this 7.5m setback being relaxed in recent years by BCA? I am tempted to extend out my front facades too for my coming reno to create more space but I don’t want to violate BCA regulations. Any advice?

Belated thanks Snoozie and AWS! Very helpful advices. I have decided to leave the stone wall alone but have it plastered up and painted to improve the visual slightly. Too much of a hassle and costs involved to hack it off or rebuild new walls and gate pillars.

Thanks for your excellent feedback Snooze! The building blue print shows my external wall is set back by 0.5m from the land boundary line. This corresponds to the distance measured on-site from the foot of the sloping stone wall to the external wall. I can infer that the stone wall is the boundary line but I will still need a land surveyor to confirm and get relevant approval from the authorities before I can touch it? My plan is to chip off the stone wall to flush with the external wall, first for security reason as it serves as a step to climb over the wall easily and secondly to install a sliding auto gate. I am planning to do only renovation and some repairs and not A and A hence I had engaged the service of an ID who might not be familiar with the URA/BCA guidelines.

Hi, just bought a IT and I found the stone wall unsightly and get into the way of a sliding auto gate I plan to replace the existing swinging type with. I want to have it removed but was told by my ID that it could not be. It is for marking out the land boundary and elevation. Is this true? Also, the existing external wall currently I measured is at 1.8m from the street level. Am I not allowed to have it extended up to 1.8m from this raised stone wall level? Looking forward to your advices.