Author Archives: Quarterlands

Piece from Irish Times on how bats were saved by the high court.
High Court steps in to save bats

We received this news about the refusal of a housing development in Dublin earlier this [...]

Planning Portal
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 [...]

The Site, Quarterlands
Planning committee update – site visit

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

Q3 – Revised and additional information

Showing NIEA concerns and addressing further submissions with changes from the developers

single storey homes bordering this development
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 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 [...]