Antrim and Newtownabbey·LDP 2030 Plan Strategy (adopted 2025)·Page 91·DM 1.2

Strategic Employment Locations - Protection and Alternative Uses

The Council will protect strategic employment sites and only permit alternative uses if they are ancillary to existing uses or comprise suitable sui generis employment uses that do not significantly diminish the site's employment role.

The Council will protect these strategic sites and resist proposals for alternative uses except where the development is ancillary to an existing use of the site or comprises a suitable sui generis employment use that will not lead to a significant diminution of the role of the SEL.

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