Belfast·SPG012 Sensitive Uses·Page 21·4.2.1
Planning Issues with Bookmaking Offices
Bookmaking offices can reduce shopping centre vitality, discourage shoppers, and generate noise, litter, traffic and disturbance affecting area amenities. Applicants should address these issues early in applications.
Bookmaking offices raise a number of planning issues including reducing the vitality and viability of shopping centres, discouraging shoppers, and generating noise, litter, traffic and disturbance which may be detrimental to the amenities of an area. Applicants should consider the guidance provided in relation to these issues at the earliest opportunity when submitting an application for a bookmaking office, to ensure that the proposal will be of highest quality and will respond to relevant planning policy requirements.
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