Category Archives: Planning Portal

The Planning Portal 😤

Planning Portal

For the accidental activists like us here’s a good one to know. It’s surprisingly easy to miss documents on the Planning Portal, it can feel like it is either deliberately set up to hide things or that documents are being edited and reuploaded out of order. Rest assured you are not going mad. In our […]

Letter 2 to LCCC Planners re: altered documents

Proposed site LA05/2022/0033/F we will lose the biodiversity

On February 1 we sent Q4 and Q5 our new documents to the LCCC Planning department (see on our documents page). One of our group happened to check Q4 a few days later and found that not only were there pages missing and out of order but content, had been removed. They had retitled it […]

Unwrapping an Unexpected Gift: A Little Holiday Planning Surprise

Quarterlands at Christmas

Hello, Drumbeg! Hope this message finds you sipping cocoa and wrapped in the cozy warmth of the holiday season. Today, we’re diving into a little planning adventure with a dash of unexpected excitement regarding our dear friend, LA05/2022/0033/F. Picture this: twinkling lights, festive decorations, and, surprise, a whopping twenty-one new documents from the developer under […]

Chaos in Communication

Chaos in Communication:

LCCC’s Flood of Notification Letters Raises Eyebrows Introduction: In recent weeks, the Lagan Valley Regional Park has become a battleground for communication as the planning application LA05/2022/0033/F unfolds. The LCCC Planning Department, responsible for keeping residents informed, seems to have created quite a storm of its own, inundating Quarterlands Group and others with a deluge […]

Here we go again

Re Advertisement: The Plans we are objecting to have been Re-Advertised on 10th November 2023 and any new objections are sought. If you click how to object the various ways and means are on this website. Comments need to be in by the 24th November 2023. If you have new information or ideas about this […]

Planning Portal

Planning Portal

All the way through this process there have been issues with the Planning Portal this is just an example. As of today 22 September 2023 at 11.30 am There are 269 ‘comments’ in total on the planning portal about Application Reference: LA05/2022/0033/F this is where the letters from concerned citizens are listed. 176 are marked ‘object’ […]