Purpose of guidance

This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) provides advice and guidance specific to placemaking and urban design. It applies to the Belfast City Council area and is intended to be a point of reference for: • Planning officers in assessing and making recommendations on planning applications. • Councillors who make decisions on planning applications. • Applicants and their multidisciplinary design teams (urban designers, architects, landscape architects, developers and planning consultants), in preparation of applications. • Communities and their local representatives. • Other interested stakeholders within the planning process.