New aerial views of Loft Lines as construction progresses towards completion later this year. The development will deliver 778 apartments across 3 residential blocks, including social and affordable housing, alongside a new riverside promenade, public park and rooftop terraces
Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins has launched a process to appoint suitably qualified and experienced independent inspectors to the planning system. The appointments will enable the Department to exercise its powers under the Planning Act 2011 to allocate “Hear and Report” work to inspectors as an additional option to the Planning Appeals Commission.
Further details at : https://t.co/fw3lRGpiB6
The candidate information booklet is available at: https://t.co/fw3lRGpiB6
📣 INDUSTRY UPDATE! 📣 Our Chief Executive, Mark Spence (@mspence001), provides an update on yesterday's Infrastructure Committee meeting to discuss SuDS legislation alongside our industry colleagues from @ACCNewHomes, Marrac Design and @turleyplanning. 🏗️
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📣Draft budget confirms need for a £1.25–per-week solution to unblock wastewater crisis. 📣
CEF and our partners in the Wastewater Infrastructure Group have warned that the draft budget recognises but will not resolve NI’s growing wastewater crisis 👉 https://t.co/wFDXD5AJPz
Belfast Harbour's new masterplan would develop out a lot of largely underused land at Clarendon Dock, including a lot of space and water
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How to pay for NI’s overloaded, underinvested water system? The minister is consulting on an indirect levy on buyers of new build homes. Business groups suggest wider socialisation of costs. No political appetite for that. https://t.co/ZaQeE3FRJP
Would £100 on the average annual household rates bill be a fair & sustainable way to solve NI’s water infrastructure crisis? Some business groups are floating the idea. The Infrastructure Minister is less keen - she’s consulting on a developer levy.
The CEF in partnership with @NIFHA and the @NIChamber today published a joint position paper on the long-term impact of the wastewater crisis on housing and construction.
Read in the paper, which was conducted by @turleyplanning & @GrantThorntonNI here👉https://t.co/l42yLJCDlf
More than 6,000 houses will not be built and thousands of jobs will be lost over the next two years unless urgent action is taken to avert a “full-blown crisis” in Northern Ireland wastewater system. https://t.co/Zm1hWsagfC
The ongoing progress being made in the Planning Improvement Programme was the focus of this week's engagement between Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins and the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
New @deptinfra Minister Liz Kimmins has said infrastructure holds the key to a better society for us all.
Speaking after taking up office at the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), the Minister said she was looking forward to building on the firm foundations put in place by John O’Dowd.
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