Category Archives: Q Blog

Worrying Suds and Foam that smelt bad River Lagan
Serious pollution incident in River Lagan

A disturbing outflow of raw sewage into the River Lagan was documented by one of [...]

Sewage in the River Lagan
NI Water highlights sewage capacity issue in Drumbeg

NI Water's network capacity mapping tool and sewer network modelling activities have identified capacity issues [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]