The area was featured in a January 2009 New York Times article headlined "Singapore prepares to gobble up its last village," which covered how the kampong was due to be demolished and redeveloped into two schools (primary and secondary), and also a road linking Buangkok Drive and Yio Chu Kang Road. Even the housing developments where HDB built Blocks 990 - 999 are not spared, and were planned according to the 2008 URA Masterplan. Plans for building of two schools and the road were however dropped with the proposed conservation of the kampong since December 2015, along with the car-lite society and merging of schools taking place since 2015.Kampong Lorong Buangkok redevelopment likely several decades later
