Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 177·Policy CC1
Policy CC1 – Development opportunity sites
Requires mixed-use development in designated city centre opportunity areas to be guided by master plans, urban design frameworks, and developers' briefs agreed with Planning Service, with demonstrated consistency to LDP objectives and policies.
The council will support mixed use development within the development opportunities areas that is consistent with the following principles: a. New developments shall be directed towards sites within the development opportunities areas of: 1. Greater Clarendon, City Quays, and Sailortown; 2. Inner North West; 3. North East Quarter; 4. Oxford Street and East Bank; and 5. Transport Hub and South Centre Linen Quarter. b. Master plans, urban design and landscaped frameworks, and developers' briefs, shall be prepared, and these shall be agreed by the council's Planning Service; c. Master plans, urban design and landscaped frameworks, and developers' briefs, shall be required to demonstrate a comprehensive approach to the planning and regeneration of the development opportunity area, and shall be consistent with the LDP objectives and policies; d. Development proposals shall be required to deliver the identified land uses, the design principles for quality buildings and the public realm for sites in the development opportunity areas' masterplan agreed by the council's Planning Service prior to planning applications being submitted for individual sites; and e. Developers shall support the delivery of new infrastructure required for the regeneration of the development opportunity areas. This will be secured through the use of planning conditions and section 76 planning agreements.
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