How To Object
After Council Backs Community Concerns.
After three years of sustained campaigning, the Quarterlands Group is heartened to report that seven councillors at Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council (LCCC) have supported the concerns we’ve consistently raised about the Quarterlands housing development most recently around the Section 76 planning agreement.
As a result of this pressure, the Council has now sent the development back to the Planning Committee for further scrutiny.
This is a significant moment in a long and difficult journey. For years, we have drawn attention to the gaps, oversights, and harms baked into this proposal including sewage capacity issues, road safety concerns, environmental damage to the Lagan Valley Regional Park, and serious flaws in how the development has been managed and communicated by statutory bodies.
We’ve asked tough questions. We’ve faced silence, resistance, and repeated minimisation. And still, we’ve kept going.
So today we ask again:
Why does it take ordinary residents, volunteering their time and energy for three years, to point out what planners, elected representatives, and statutory bodies should have identified from the start?
The system is not working the way it should. But communities like ours are proving that persistence matters.
To the councillors who stood with us: thank you. To everyone who has supported our efforts: this outcome belongs to you too.
We’re not finished. But today, we take a moment to recognise that our voices are being heard.
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