About LEAF

About LEAF

The Landscape Excellence Assessment Framework, or LEAF for short, is a certification scheme to celebrate good landscape design, construction and management of parks and development projects. With LEAF, NParks aims to encourage ecologically, climatically and socially resilient parks and developments in Singapore's urban landscape

LEAF is the first scheme in Singapore that is solely dedicated to recognising the provision and management of greenery in developments and parks. LEAF is developed with consideration of the current best practices in landscape design and management.

This certification recognises excellence in efforts of developers, landscape architects, architects, contractors and maintenance agents in creating high quality urban landscapes, contributing to Singapore’s journey to be a City in Nature.

LEAF certification also helps inform the public of the quality of landscapes of the certified development. The LEAF logo can be used for marketing purposes for each certified development, project owners and team members.

Assessment

Projects are assessed on the following aspects:

• Accessibility
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Community Wellbeing & Engagement
• Design & Landscaping
• Environmental Sustainability
• Maintenance

The assessment criteria will differ depending on:

1. Type:
   • Developments (residential, commercial, healthcare, etc.)
   • Parks (nature parks, neighbourhood parks, etc.)
2. Status of completion:
   • New: Project is nearing completion or has received Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) / Certificate of Statutory Completion (CSC) for less than 2 years.
   • Existing: Project is completed and has received CSC for 2 years or more.

The submissions are evaluated by a team of LEAF assessors as well as the LEAF Evaluation Panel to determine the project's certification. Projects certified from year 2020 onwards are awarded "Platinum", "Gold", "Silver" or "Certified" based on the assessment outcomes.