Given the green light by the council’s Planning Committee, it represents an investment of £45 million with the creation of 200 construction jobs and 1,000 creative industry jobs.
Planning Committee Chair, Councillor John Hussey, said: “This is great news for the city, it will create 1,200 jobs and boost Belfast’s flourishing film and creative sectors.”
A report was also brought before the Committee detailing the Planning Service’s positive performance from the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 – outlining progress with major development and local development applications.
Among the statistics was approval granted to 1,300 new residential units, 519 householder applications, five new hotels and a new Children’s Hospital.
The total number of applications received was 2,738 – an almost 12% increase from the same period the previous year (2,426). The number of major applications received was 32 with 29 processed during this period – a third more than the same period last year (23). The average processing time was 37 weeks, which is a further improvement on last year’s performance of 41.4 weeks and is significantly under the regional average of 52.8 weeks.
In the same period, the Planning Committee also considered a total of 134 applications, 46 of which were major applications.
Advertisement
