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News Q Blog Sewer Overflows
Ongoing sewage dumping scandal
Not much has improved since a Belfast Telegraph article in 2023 reported NI Water’s fine [...]
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LVRP MAP Q Blog
Drumbeg in Lagan Valley Regional Park
Lagan Valley, within which LVRP is situated, was designated an Area of OutstandingNatural Beauty (AONB) [...]
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Sewage in Our Waters, Swimmers Falling Ill, and Still We Are Told Everything Is Excellent
On the very day Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister announced record numbers of beaches achieving Excellent [...]
Oct
Death by a thousand planning applications
How Much More of the Lagan Valley Are We Prepared to Lose? Another green field [...]
Oct
No Seats, No Presentation, Nothing to Take Away: Concerns Over Holiday Village Consultation
Was this really meaningful public consultation? Concerns have been raised over the accessibility and conduct [...]
Oct
A Public Consultation, But Where Was the Publicity?
Today, 6 October, a public consultation is being held at Lagan Valley LeisurePlex on proposals [...]
Oct
A Holiday Village in Drumbeg? Public Meeting – Please Come Along
A proposal has been brought forward for a Holiday Park and associated works on land [...]
Sep
Why Is Apple Maps Still Calling Lagan Valley a ‘National Landscape’? pt 3
An enquiry by the Quarterlands Group into an unexplained change to the name of the [...]
Sep
The Hummingbird Hawk-Moth Returns to Quarterlands
New video footage has captured another wonderful encounter with a hummingbird hawk-moth here at Quarterlands, [...]
Aug
Why Did “Lagan Valley National Landscape” Appear on Google Maps? pt 2
Part 2: DAERA Responds, and the Answer Raises More Questions We have now received DAERA’s [...]
Aug
Protecting Biodiversity
When Did We Stop Expecting Nature to Come First? Four years ago, a handful of [...]
Aug
Why Did “Lagan Valley National Landscape” Appear on Google Maps? pt 1
Part 1. In September 2024 Quarterlands Group noticed something curious on Google Maps. The familiar [...]
Aug