Under the MND Research Fund for the Built Environment, awarded by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) on 8 April 2008 to the National Parks Board (NParks), the research project WBS R-294-000-022-490 (about S$1 million in kind and actual funding), and entitled “To Develop Landscape Guidelines for the Application of Green Plot Ratio (GnPR) in Singapore” was formed on 9 July 2009 between NParks (under Dy Director Dr TAN Puay Yok; now A/P with NUS DOA); NUS; JTC Corp; HDB and URA. Fieldwork support was provided by Broadway Malyan Ltd under its partner, Adj Prof (Nottingham University) Jason POMEROY. GnPR is developed by the Dr ONG Boon Lay (formerly SL, NUS DOA; now with University of Melbourne) to guide the provision of greenery in urban settings. GnPR uniquely allows a three-dimensional quantification of greenery on a site through the use the Leaf Area Index (LAI) measure. Specific research objectives: