Quarterlands Blog

Local voices are coming together to defend and celebrate a place like no other

The Lagan Valley.

As pressure increases from overdevelopment and under-regulation, we’re documenting what’s at stake: biodiversity, heritage, climate resilience, and fighting to preserve the well-being of our community. Here you’ll find updates on our campaign, thoughtful reflections from residents, and stories that shine a light on both the threats we face and the hope we hold.

We’re a grassroots group standing for something bigger than ourselves. Thank you for reading, sharing, and standing with us.

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 [...]

A Wider Pattern of Concern

Bob Stewart’s Pub Redevelopment: A Wider Pattern of Concern New documents have been published in [...]

Council Reassurances Ring Hollow

Following up on our recent post on yet more flooding issues on the Quarterlands Road, [...]