Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 39·5.0.3
Economic Growth and Sustainable Development Strategy
The LDP promotes sustainable economic growth to strengthen Belfast's economy, create jobs, and encourage residential population growth to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution caused by high commuter volumes.
Belfast's economy has performed well, with inward investment companies providing new jobs in the city, despite a continued fall in population. However, Belfast has a wide travel to work catchment area, generating high volumes of commuters travelling by car into the city during the working week. This has created severe traffic congestion and air pollution, which is affecting community health and degrading the environmental quality of the city. The LDP will promote sustainable growth that strengthens the economy to create jobs, and encourages more people to live within the city to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.
Source — /Users/richardhill/Documents/planning-arch-project/data/documents/belfast/LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023).pdf