Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 20·2.3
Environmental Profile and Natural Heritage
Belfast's distinctive landscape includes Belfast Lough, the River Lagan valley, and surrounding hills. The LDP will balance development pressures with restoration and conservation of natural heritage and environment.
Belfast has one of the most striking landscape settings to be found in any city in the British Isles. It lies at the head of Belfast Lough in the lower reaches of the valley of the River Lagan and is flanked to the north west by the Divis and Black mountains and on the south east by the gentler slopes of the Castlereagh and Holywood Hills. Cognisant of our natural heritage, the LDP will balance development pressures along with the restoration and conservation of our natural heritage and environment.
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