The Chief Executive in Council has approved the draft South West Kowloon outline zoning plan, the Town Planning Board says. It covers 332 hectares of land and 70 hectares of typhoon shelter.

About four hectares is zoned commercial, covering two sites adjacent to Olympic MTR Station - the HSBC Centre bounded by Sham Mong Road, Pok Man Street and Hoi King Street, and Olympian City One and Bank of China Centre on Hoi Fan Road.

About 31 hectares is zoned comprehensive development area, covering the Kowloon MTR Station site and one to its east bounded by Lin Cheung Road, Jordan Road, Road D1 and Austin Road West, as well as another three sites between Yen Chow Street West and Hing Wah Street West.

The residential (Group A) zoning covers 48 hectares for high-density residential developments. Most of the sites have been developed, with the exception of sites at Hoi Fai Road, the junction of Cherry Street and Hoi Wang Road, the junction of Hoi Wang Road and Yan Cheung Road, and to the east of Road D1 between Jordan Road and Austin Road West.

A site of about two hectares on Yen Chow Street West is zoned industrial, which has been developed for godown and open storage uses.

About 79 hectares of land is zoned other specified uses. This zone covers a site of 40 hectares for the development of the West Kowloon Cultural District. The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority will prepare a development plan for the district in accordance with the development parameters stipulated in the outline zoning plan.