Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 92·7.1.69
Assessment of intensive housing forms outside designated areas
Intensive housing developments (HMOs and flats) outside designated Housing Management Areas must be assessed against relevant design and residential amenity criteria, including local character, environmental quality, privacy, and scale and massing.
In all cases, intensive forms of housing whether within or outside HMAs will still be carefully assessed against the relevant criteria set out in policies RD1, RD2 and RD3. Local character, environmental quality and residential amenity, privacy of existing residents and scale and massing will continue to be particularly important considerations. Although, sui generis, HMOs are residential in nature and will therefore be assessed in relation to residential design policies.
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