Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 24·3.2.2, 3.2.3
Belfast Urban Area Plan (BUAP) 2001
The BUAP 2001 is the current statutory development plan for most of Belfast district, adopted in 1989 and covering the former Belfast City Council area plus urban parts of Castlereagh, Lisburn, Newtownabbey, Greenisland and Holywood. Although largely out-of-date and formally superseded by BMAP in 2014, it was re-instated as the statutory plan following the quashing of BMAP in 2017.
The current development plan for the majority of the Belfast district is the Belfast Urban Area Plan (BUAP) 2001, which was adopted in December 1989. The area covered by the plan included the whole of the administrative area of the former Belfast City Council area, together with the urban parts of the former district council areas of Castlereagh, Lisburn and Newtownabbey as well as Greenisland and Holywood. The purpose of the BUAP was to establish physical development policies for this broad urban area up to 2001, clarifying the extent and location of development and providing a framework for public and private agencies in their investment decisions relating to land use. Although alterations were made in 1996, the BUAP is now largely out-of-date and was formally superseded by the BMAP in September 2014. However, BMAP was quashed as a result of a judgement in the court of appeal delivered on 18 May 2017, meaning that the BUAP 2001 remains the statutory development plan for most of the council's area.
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