LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: Important Diary Dates

Newry, Mourne and Down Council Local Development Plan 2030

Publication of Local Development Plan: Preferred Options Paper

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has produced its Local Development Plan: Preferred Option Paper (POP), which can be downloaded HERE.

The POP is designed to stimulate debate and encourage feedback on key issues of strategic significance which are likely to influence the direction of the Council’s new LDP. The POP outlines the vision and strategic objectives of the Plan, along with a set of key issues and associated options for addressing them. The Council’s preferred options are indicated in the Paper along with a justification for each preferred option.

The consultation period for the POP will run for a period of 12 weeks from 1 June to 24 August 2018. Your comments are invited on the key issues and options considered in the POP. Comments must be planning related. Comments may be submitted by email to ldp@nmandd.org preferably using the POP questionnaire response form. Alternatively you can write to the Council with all comments in response to this consultation document clearly referenced ‘LDP: Preferred Options Paper’ and addressed to:

LDP: Preferred Options Paper
Development Plan Team
Council Offices
Downshire Civic Centre
Downshire Estate, Ardglass Road
Downpatrick BT30 6GQ

The closing date for receipt of comments is 5pm on 24th August 2018.

(Supporting documents, including the POP questionnaire response form will be available from the Council’s website at www.newrymournedown.org. Hard copies of the POP can also be viewed during normal office hours at the Council’s Planning offices at Monaghan Row, Newry and the Downshire Civic Centre, Downpatrick.)

There will be a number of public drop-in sessions across the district, during the consultation period, where interested parties can call in to discuss the POP with planning officers.

The local drop-in session details are:

Date:               Thursday 14 June 2018
Location:       Rowallane Community Hub, 35 Main Street, Saintfield
                                  (behind Peter Bowles + Co Solicitors)
Time:              6.00 pm – 8.00pm

The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is a guide to community engagement in the planning process. The SCI outlines how the Council will engage with its citizens and stakeholders in exercising its planning functions; it sets out the procedures for involving the community in the production of the LDP, in the consideration of planning applications, in planning enforcement, and in the Council’s other planning functions.

To view or download the SCI click HERE.