What’s Happening

Developers want to develop.

Their plans are to build many houses and hotels, carparks and roads in the middle of Our Lagan Valley Regional Park, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Northern Irelands ONLY designated Regional Park. Destroying the green spaces we cherish. Due care and attention has not been paid to the Biodiversity and Infrastructure of our environment and we are therefore raising strong objection. 

They are going to put huge 5 bedroom houses here towering over our cottages. 

This is the most recent of hundreds of developments suggested for this area. The planning portal is broken. Objections are taking months to show there or are not showing at all and in the meantime the ‘planning process’ goes on. If we don’t speak up we will lose what we all moved here to enjoy. 

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Planning Portal

All the way through this process there have been issues with the Planning Portal this [...]

Petition update

Our petition has now gathered more than 1400 signatures, and to date 192 letters of [...]

Planning committee update – site visit

At the Local Council Planning Committee meeting on 4th Sept 2023 a Site Visit was [...]

August 2023 Community Update

An update for the local community distributed before 4th September, when the development proposal went [...]

Advocacy

We wrote to our elected representatives to ask them to speak on our behalf - [...]

Letter to our local representatives

Read a letter compiled by the Quarterlands group which sets out our concerns on the [...]

Lagan Valley Regional Park

Lagan Valley, within which LVRP is situated, was designated an Area of OutstandingNatural Beauty (AONB) [...]

Q2 – Response to the Rebuttal

The developer added a rebuttal to our work to the planning portal and this is [...]

NOTE

28.08.23 The site under consideration is unambiguously identified as a Site of Local Nature Conservation Importance (SLNCI) in position paper 8: natural heritage, dated November 2019, page 38 from LCCC. This classification warrants thorough consideration in the evaluation of the proposed development. 

(SLNCIs) are identified as supporting habitats, species or earth science features. As well as making a contribution to the local natural heritage, they contribute to National and European biodiversity.

67+ Protected Species 21+ Priority Protected Species resident in and around a proposed building site along the Quarterlands Road in the Lagan Valley Regional Park, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Site of Local Nature Conservation in Northern Ireland on the outskirts of Belfast. All the photographs and videos were taken by residents in and around the site.

See how exotic and marvellous the nature we have all around us is?
Don’t Bulldoze Biodiversity –

Videos by residents with ambient sound.

Photographs by residents with music.

PROTECT OUR PRIORITY SPECIES

Help make our voice heard

LEARN MORE

HERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE OBJECTION DOCUMENTs submitted by the QUARTERLANDS GROUP Since SEPT 2022

We researched many aspects of planning in the Lagan Valley Regional Park and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and have submitted these documents to the planning authority.


The developers lodged a rebuttal document which you can see on the planning portal Q2 is our response to their rebuttal. It also contains interesting maps showing the designation of land over time and asks about Lagan Valley Regional Park, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty being changed and designated as building land. 

In March 2023 the developers lodged more drawings with the planning office showing further changes to the boundary planting. The removal of part of the green at Hambleden Park and the movement of houses to facilitate further vehicle access to the land beyond the site. So we wrote Q3 in answer. 

Planning Portal

All the way through this process there have been issues with the Planning Portal this [...]

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Petition update

Our petition has now gathered more than 1400 signatures, and to date 192 letters of [...]

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Planning committee update – site visit

At the Local Council Planning Committee meeting on 4th Sept 2023 a Site Visit was [...]

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August 2023 Community Update

An update for the local community distributed before 4th September, when the development proposal went [...]

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Advocacy

We wrote to our elected representatives to ask them to speak on our behalf - [...]

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Letter to our local representatives

Read a letter compiled by the Quarterlands group which sets out our concerns on the [...]

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Lagan Valley Regional Park

Lagan Valley, within which LVRP is situated, was designated an Area of OutstandingNatural Beauty (AONB) [...]

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Q2 – Response to the Rebuttal

The developer added a rebuttal to our work to the planning portal and this is [...]

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Key Questions

This document draws together a list of the key questions in our September 2022 submission [...]

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Q1 – Main Document

Read our initial submission lodged against the planning proposal by us, the Quarterland Road residents, [...]

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Update August 2022

Dear Community Members, We would like to provide you with an update on the proposed [...]

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About

What We Want

No More Building in Lagan Valley Regional Park

Without

About Quarterlands.com

In Dec 2021 another developer dropped another planning application to the planners.

In late January 2022 the notification landed on a handful of local doormats. With less than a week to respond to the application one of our number asked friends and neighbours what they thought. None of them had heard about it. A group of us got together on Zoom to talk about it and decided that we needed to find out more. 

Quarterlands.com is part of the finding out. We’d like to know what you think and to ask for your support to challenge the flurry of applications and building projects in the area. 

We live in Lagan Valley Regional Park, in an area of outstanding natural beauty and we genuinely fear that we will lose what makes this such a lovely place to live if we don’t challenge.

UPDATE July 2023 the committee hearing was stopped at the last minute due to new legislation. The developer changed his plans and resubmitted, neighbours were not notified.

Quarterlands Videos

All taken in and around the proposed site. 

OUR LEAFLET

Some of our group have been sharing this leaflet in the area to tell more of our friends and neighbours about what’s happening here. 

Our Leaflet

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

Make your voice heard

SIGN HERE

Why Get Involved?

We have the privilege of the Lagan Valley Regional Park an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Our biodiversity is rich. We have rare plants and animals, we have green spaces and watercourses which need our protection. Our infrastructure is in need of improvement. Our local amenities need to exist. We can see that developers are profiting and fear that local planning authorities may not be fully considering the whole picture.

If we don’t raise awareness and voices to protect and improve the area we will lose it for ourselves and the generations to come as it will simply continue to be built over.  

What to do

How To Object

1

Write a Letter explaining your concerns to the planning authority.

Write your objection.

Quote the planning number

LA05/2022/0033/F

Email to Planning
2

Sign the Petiton

Click Here and Sign on Change.org

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Don’t Bulldoze Our Biodiversity

Quarterlands Group are residents of Lagan Valley Regional Park an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty south of Belfast.

We have rare plants and animals, we have green spaces and watercourses which need our protection. We can all see developers building across the park and zoning changes in what were once green belt areas. Profits are being made from our wild spaces, species are being harmed and lost. Environmental pressures from climate change are being dodged and we fear that local planning authorities may be missing the point.

We need to make our voices heard to protect what we have for ourselves and for future generations.  

Please sign this petition and stand with your friends and neighbours to call a halt and a rethink. 

3

Make Calls or Send emails

Our elected representatives should hear your thoughts on these matters.

Send copies of your objections to
MP

Emma Little-Pengelly –
emma.little-pengelly@mla.niassembly.gov.uk

 

MLAs

Robbie Butler (UUP) – robbie.butler@mla.niassembly.gov.uk

Sorcha Eastwood (Alliance) – sorcha.eastwood@mla.niassembly.gov.uk

Paul Givan (DUP) – paul.givan@mla.niassembly.gov.uk

David Honeyford (Alliance) – david.honeyford@mla.niassembly.gov.uk

 

Councillors 

Andrew Gowan DUP – andrew.gowan@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

Uel Mackin DUP – uel.mackin@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

Aaron McIntyre Alliance – aaron.mcintyre@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

Alex Swann UUP – alex.swan@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

James Baird UUP – james.baird@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

4

Visit the NI Direct Planning Portal and register your objection.

Copy and Paste this planning number to find all the documents and register your objection.

LA05/2022/0033/F

PLANNING PORTAL

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

Make your voice heard

SIGN HERE