Home-Based Small Scale Business Scheme
Advisory for home businesses
From 2 June 2020, all businesses under the Home-Based Small Scale Business Scheme that operate using a delivery/ collection model will be allowed to resume. Other home-based businesses that involve customers entering the household will continue to be suspended. Please refer to the Ministry of Health's press release for details.
This scheme enables you to carry out small scale home-based activities to supplement your household income, without requiring HDB’s approval.
However, as HDB flats are primarily intended for residential use, please observe the guidelines of the scheme. If your business activity or its scale grows to an extent that inconveniences your neighbours and creates disamenities, we will ask that you stop the activity, and relocate it to a retail or industrial space.
Guidelines
- Your flat is for residential use and you cannot register it as a business address
- The business activities should not:
- adversely affect your neighbours’ living environment or cause any nuisance, e.g. noise, smoke, odour, dust, litter, high human/vehicle traffic
- involve the use of heavy equipment or appliances that are not intended for domestic use
- require additional workers or staff
- require storage or movement of goods
- There should be no physical or paid advertising for the business, e.g. display of business signboard outside the flat and/ or on doors and windows, or advertising in newspapers or online, including mobile platforms
- Business activities must comply with the rules and regulations of the relevant authorities, e.g.
- Singapore Food Agency, for food hygiene
- Fire Safety and Shelter Department, for fire safety requirements