Warning has been made regarding noise, air quality, smell and pests complaints as a result of adjacent commercial premises
A new social housing estate for West Belfast has been approved despite warnings at City Hall that the plan involved “poor place making” in a space that was “in the middle of an industrial site”.
It is immediately surrounded by Asda, Lidl, both with service delivery yards immediately neighbouring the site, a refrigerator trailer park, a council waste recycling site, a 24 hour printing/packaging business, a wholesale distributor of fresh food produce, and a fish products premises. The Northern Ireland Housing Executive has projected a housing need of 1,107 homes for Middle West Belfast for 2022-27. The waiting list in that part of the city has increased by 48 percent since 2017.
One objection was received from an adjoining business, raising concerns regarding safety risk, traffic impact and impact on/of adjoining existing businesses. The Stormont Department for Infrastructure Roads Division submitted a rejection but with further amendments from the developer these are to be reconsidered.
“I know it can be easy to sit and think, how can we speak on what wouldn’t normally be considered an ideal piece of land to be used for housing? But I think we really need to have a look at it and see how we can make it so that land can be used.
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