Antrim and Newtownabbey·SPG Affordable Housing·Page 13·8

Affordable Housing Policy Requirements and LDP Compliance

All housing proposals must accord with Local Development Plan provisions, and applicants should ensure all relevant policies are considered together when preparing proposals, including policies related to conservation areas and other policy areas.

Each proposal for housing within the Borough will be required to accord with the provisions of the Local Development Plan, unless exceptionally, other material considerations indicate otherwise. As a consequence applicants should be alive to the fact that all policies within the LDP should be read together as a whole, as there are many policy areas within the plan that may be relevant to a particular proposal for housing. By way of one specific example, in addition to those policies for general and affordable housing, where a proposal is located within the boundary of a Conservation Area or may impact upon its setting, the provisions of policy DM

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