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Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)

The use of landscaping and vegetation is often a key element of a successful proposal and used effectively can significantly enhance biodiversity and help integrate new development into the environmen

Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)

Developers should note that the Swift was given 'Bird of our Borough' status by the Council in May 2015 and one simple measure that new development schemes could do to promote biodiversity is to use S

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

Planning permission will be granted for development that incorporates measures to adapt to environmental change, in order to support sustainable and enduring development. Measures to help adapt to th

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

The council will adopt the precautionary principle when considering the impacts of a proposed development on local, national or international natural heritage resources, including designated sites, pr

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

The policy also aims to secure net improvements in biodiversity whilst protecting or enhancing green and blue infrastructure provision in recognition of its wide ranging benefits.

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

Preserving and enhancing the natural environment is a core planning principle of the SPPS and the furtherance of biodiversity conservation is a statutory legal requirement of all public authorities. T

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

In this regard, the application of the precautionary principle approach is necessary to ensure the protection of important natural heritage interests. Where exceptional circumstances exist that suppor

Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)

Proposals adjacent to rivers and other water bodies shall give due regard to the protection and enhancement of biodiversity, water quality, access and amenity, including through the adoption of sensit

NI-wide·PPS 11 Planning and Waste Management

Careful restoration and aftercare is essential to prepare landfill or land raising sites for a use which is compatible with the surrounding area. Proposals should be detailed, comprehensive, practical

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

Many areas in Northern Ireland are important for their natural heritage interest. Several of these areas have merited statutory designation and are protected under international (including European),

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

The European Commission adopted a new strategy to halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems services in the EU by 2020. PPS 2 furthers the Northern Ireland Executive's commitment in its Programme f

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

Furthermore, the Executive's Sustainable Development Strategy identifies striking an appropriate balance between the responsible use and protection of natural resources as a priority area for action a

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

The objectives of this Planning Policy Statement are: to seek to further the conservation, enhancement and restoration of the abundance, quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the region's natural

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

The public interest requires that all development is carried out in a way that would not cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance, such as natural heritage.

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

In taking decisions, the planning authority should ensure that appropriate weight is attached to designated sites of international, national and local importance; priority and protected species; and t

NI-wide·PPS 2 Natural Heritage

In exercise of its responsibility for development management in Northern Ireland, the planning authority assesses development proposals against all planning policies and other material considerations

Belfast·SPG003 Residential Design

The Council attaches particular importance to using 'greening' to raise the quality of residential development and assist in the promotion of biodiversity. Existing landscape features such as streams,

NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)

Northern Ireland is a region of dramatic landscape contrasts and subtle transitions. The inherent diversity of the underlying rocks, landforms and soils has been augmented by centuries of settlement a

NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)

The regional strategic objectives for natural heritage are to: • protect, conserve, enhance and restore the abundance, quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the region's natural heritage; • furthe

NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)

In plan-making and decision-taking, planning authorities must give appropriate weight to climate considerations (including the target to generate 80% of electricity consumption from renewable sources

NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)

on the following planning considerations: • public safety, such as roads, rail, and aviation safety (including communications interference); • human health; • residential amenity and impacts on other

NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)

Climate change is adversely impacting nature and biodiversity. Development proposals should, therefore, protect and, where feasible, seek to enhance biodiversity which could contribute to strengthenin