Queens quay master plan
Dear Department for Communities (Northern Ireland),
Hello,
The proposed regeneration of Queens Quay was anticipated to have development completed by 2022. Can you please clarify if this deadline has been pushed back and if any progress on construction is anticipated in the short term?
Yours faithfully,
Christopher brown
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Mr Brown
Thank you for your email below.
The Department for Communities has submitted an Outline Planning
Application for the Queen’s Quay development site with Belfast City
Council. This is currently being considered by Belfast City Council and
stakeholder consultation is ongoing. It is anticipated that a decision on
the application will be made in the latter part of 2021. If successful and
subject to Ministerial approval the Department will then begin a
development brief process to appoint a preferred developer for the site.
This process will most likely take us to 2022 and then the preferred
developer would require a full planning permission to begin work on the
site.
There is no construction planned for the site in the near future and given
the information above it is probably 2023 at the earliest before work
would begin onsite.
Michael
From: DfC FOI
Sent: 21 December 2020 10:40
To: Pettigrew, Michael <[email address]>
Subject: FOI Request - Queens Quay Master Plan - Initial Liaison With BRD
- Laganside
Michael
Are you content to respond under FOI? If so I will commission the request
out to you.
Helen
Helen Lindsay | Information Management Branch | Department for Communities
Level 5 | Nine Lanyon Place | BELFAST | BT1 3LP
Contact: * [1][DfC request email] | ( Tel: (028) 9082 9117 | ( DD:
38117
Supporting people, Building communities, Shaping places.
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