To the east of the road is Tai Sheung Tok hill. From 1964, the hilltop was developed as a large quarry, Anderson Road Quarry, highly visible from much of Kowloon and Hong Kong, which supplied construction aggregate to Hong Kong until July 2017, operated by the K.Wah Group, when it was one of only three quarries still operating in Hong Kong, along with those in Shek O and Lam Tei. The quarry site is on the ridge surrounding Kowloon, visible from much of urban Hong Kong, but was ultimately deemed to damage the beauty and the fungshui of Victoria Harbour. Planning for a major development of the 40-hectare site for around 9400 private and subsidised housing flats serving a residential population of 25,000 is in progress. The development is expected to accept its first residents in 2023-24.
History
The road is one of earliest roads built by British Army after the British got the lease of New Territories from the Qing in 1899. It is named after William John Anderson, Controller of Stores in Government Supplies of Hong Kong Government. The original road was longer than at present. After reaching Lau Tong, present-day Ma Yau Tong, it ran south to western slope of Black Hill and Hai Wan. It further went south to near the top of Devil's Peak and ended near Sam Ka Tsun. This road section later partly overlapped with the Stage 3 of Wilson Trail, and part of the final section to Sam Ka Tsuen is now an access road to the Junk Bay Chinese Permanent Cemetery. The road was described in military materials as 'a road suitable for manhandled guns'. In 1950s, when the Hong Kong Government sent Kuomintang refugees to the area of Rennie's Mill, some churches were built along part of the road, which was extended from the southern end of the present-day Anderson Road to the present-day Po Lam Road South). Until the late 1980s, this road was only used by residents of Rennie's Mill. In the late 1980s, when the first two public housing estates in Po Lam, Tseung Kwan O New Town - Po Lam Estate and Tsui Lam Estate were built, it was the only link to Po Lam until the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel was opened in 1990. Nowadays, although Po Lam Road is no longer the main road toTseung Kwan O, some bus routes from Tseung Kwan O still use Po Lam Road.
Since the 1996 cancellation of KMB Bus Route 90, no public transport routes use Anderson Road. However, buses via Po Lam Road and Clear Water Bay Road include the Anderson Road bus stop.
