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Nationally Designated Sites of Nature Conservation Importance
11.19-11.20Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)
Nationally designated sites of nature conservation importance (ASSIs, Nature Reserves or National Nature Reserves) are also very important assets and include sites which represent the best examples of
site-planningconservationnature-conservationMitigation and Compensatory Measures for Permitted Development
11.21Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)
Where development is permitted, conditions may be attached to the grant of planning permission for appropriate mitigation and/or compensatory measures.
site-planningconservationnature-conservationLocally Designated Sites Protection
11.22Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)
Locally designated sites also form an important element in the Region's overall network of nature conservation sites that require appropriate protection from the adverse effects of inappropriate devel
site-planningconservationnature-conservationProtected Species Policy Aim
11.23-11.24Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)
The aim of this policy is to protect all legally protected species and habitats from the damaging impact of development with the potential to harm them. This aim has taken account of and is consistent
site-planningconservationnature-conservationWind energy resource requirements and landscape sensitivity
9.1.22Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)
Renewable energy resources can usually be developed only where they occur at a level that is viable and some degree of impact may be unavoidable. In relation to wind energy, this can only be exploited
energyrenewablelandscapenature-conservationJustification and Amplification: Background and Rationale
9.1, 9.2NI-wide·PPS 11 Planning and Waste Management
The disposal of inert waste by its deposition on farmland and elsewhere has in the past often been inappropriate in terms of sustainable development in that the waste involved was capable of being mov
waste-managementland-improvementnature-conservationheritageProtection of designated areas from minerals development
6.159NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
designated (or is proposed for designation) to protect its landscape, scientific or natural heritage significance will not normally be granted permission where this would prejudice the essential chara
mineralslandscapenature-conservationaonbpeat-extraction