Tool · Planning applications
What has been applied for next door?
A hotel, an office tower, a relaxed height limit two streets away — it all goes through the Town Planning Board first, and most people only find out when the hoarding goes up. The map shows every application on its site, coloured by the Board's decision.
What the planning layers show
Planning applications (s.16)
27,198
What was applied for, where, and whether the Board approved, rejected or revoked it.
Show on the mapRezoning requests (s.12A)
1,338
Requests to change the zone itself — the bigger shifts in what a site can become.
Show on the mapZoning
11,953 zones
The statutory zone for every site: residential, commercial, green belt, government use.
Show on the mapBuilding height limits
6,231 zones
Maximum heights written into the outline zoning plans — the ceiling on what can rise next door.
Show on the mapWorks already started
2,221 started
Building plans approved, works started and occupation permits issued nearby.
Show on the map
A real example: Wun Sha Tower, Tai Hang
A 1980 block on a quiet street off Causeway Bay. What the Town Planning Board has decided around it since 2019:
- Age
- 46 years
- Storeys
- 23
- Owners' corporation
- Wun Sha Tower
- Applications within 200 m, decided since 2019
- 7
- Hotels approved nearby
- 2 — A/H8/438 and A/H8/439, 2024, about 180 m away
- Not approved
- An access road for a residential development — A/H6/87, 2020
35 of 345 buildings within 300 m also have Buildings Department orders on record.
- Approval is not construction: an approved hotel may never be built. Works that have started show up in the new-buildings layer.
- Each case number opens the Board's own record in the Statutory Planning Portal, from the card in the map.
Source: Town Planning Board Planning Applications Considered by the Town Planning Board (quarterly) · Buildings Department Completed new buildings for which occupation permits have been issued (monthly) · Land Registry Index of Owners' Corporations (OC) (monthly) · retrieved by KongInsight 31 Aug 2026
What the planning layers won't tell you
What a zone allows, in detail
The Notes to each outline zoning plan (Column 1 and 2 uses) are PDFs on the Statutory Planning Portal.
Projects that need no application
Uses already permitted in the zone go straight to building plans — watch the new-buildings layer.
Whether an approval will be built
Many approvals lapse. Only started works are certain.
See what's coming before it arrives
Search your address, turn on planning applications, tap a site.