Belfast·LDP Plan Strategy 2035 (adopted 2023)·Page 247·10.1.7
Open space provision in new residential development
All new residential development must provide new publicly accessible open space. Where development sites are too small to accommodate on-site open space, planning agreements may collect financial contributions to create or improve larger areas of open space or green and blue infrastructure improvements including enhanced accessibility.
The SPPS requires all new residential development to provide new publicly accessible open space to enhance the quality of new developments. However the size of many development sites in the city makes it impractical to provide open space within the curtilage of the development site. In such cases it may be appropriate to have a planning agreement to collect financial contributions and use them to create and/or improve larger areas of open space, or other improvements to the green and blue infrastructure network, including enhanced accessibility.
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