Local Development Plan Strategy Recognition and Application

The Local Development Plan Strategy recognises the increasingly important role of the evening and night time economy providing a mix of leisure and cultural uses to promote the vitality, diversity and attractiveness of the city. The Local Development Plan Strategy contains policies that enables the council's Planning Service to make consistent and transparent decisions on development applications. The Supplementary Planning Guidance note has been prepared to support the council's Plan Strategy, and to provide more detailed information to help prospective applicants to understand and comply with the Plan's policies. The Evening and Night-time Economy SPG provides further details on policy for Tourism Leisure Culture TLC4: Evening and night-time economy contained in Local Development Plan Strategy for Belfast. This will help to ensure that policies are clearly understood and applied effectively to secure the aim and objectives of the Local Development Plan. The SPG should be used alongside the council's other policy guidance aimed at securing high quality sustainable developments within the Plan Area. The Evening and Night-time economy SPG will be a material consideration in the determination of planning applications for change of use and new development.