Author Archives: Quarterlands

National Trust Warning

Feels Very Familiar to Us Reading the recent Belfast Live coverage of the National Trust [...]

DAERA Consultation on Water Quality – A Critical Moment for the River Lagan

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has issued a consultation paper entitled [...]

Updated – Toolkit for Accidental Activists:

Toolkit for Accidental Activists: What We Wish We’d Known We never planned to become activists. [...]

What has changed

in the Quarterlands environmental assessment? Recent documents uploaded to the Planning Portal raise serious questions [...]

New Planning Portal Documents: EIA Revisited

… but Nothing Really Changes Interesting uploads appeared on the Planning Portal today 23/4/26 relating [...]

A Warning We Should Not Ignore

From the Lagan to Belfast Lough: The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) [...]

Industrial Poultry Planning Application in Lagan Valley:

Why This Matters A proposal for an intensive poultry unit on greenfield land within the [...]

Recorded Flooding at the Proposed Hotel Site (2022–2026)

Introduction This page provides a record of surface water flooding observed at and adjacent to [...]

Lagan River Flooding Again 2026

Why This Flood Plain Matters More Than Ever The latest photos and videos from Drum [...]

Flooding on Quarterlands Road: When Surface Water and Sewage Are Part of the Same System

Once again, Quarterlands Road is flooding. The photographs above were taken recently at the section [...]