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Planning permission granted for a new 120-home neighbourhood on Ballinderry Road, Lisburn

Turley has helped to secure planning permission for a new family-focused neighbourhood on the Ballinderry Road in Lisburn from Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s planning committee.

We provided expert Planning and Strategic Communications services for the 120-home scheme brought forward by Apex Housing Association (Apex) to meet the growing need in the city for high-quality social and affordable housing for families, those with complex needs and the over-55s population. The design of the scheme was brought forward and developed by Belfast-based architects, RPP Architects.

The agreed mix of housing types is designed to reflect the community-focused nature of the new neighbourhood with a range of homes including seven two and three-bedroom affordable dwellings; and in the social rented tenure, 90 two and three-bedroom dwellings; six complex needs bungalows; eight two-person apartments with own door access, and nine three-person over-55s apartments.

According to the latest figures provided by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) on social housing need in Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council area, approximately 1,450 homes are required to meet the predicted need by 2025.

Commenting on the approval, Apex’s Director of Development, Barry Kerr stated:

“We’re delighted to see Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council’s planning committee approve our proposals for 120 new homes on the Ballinderry Road. We’ve worked closely with the planning team in the council alongside local stakeholders to inform and guide the proposals through the consultation process and it’s great to see this hard work bear fruit.

“During the consultation process, we reached out to gather the thoughts and inputs from as many local residents and stakeholders as possible with hundreds of visits to the consultation website over the course of the Pre-Application Community Consultation process.

“Apex constantly strive to provide the best quality housing solutions throughout our proposals, and we believe we have achieved that with our approved plans for lands at Ballinderry. We look forward to commencing the construction phase of the project in 2023, working to ensure the homes can be occupied as soon as possible.”

Apex is a major housing association managing more than 6,000 homes across Northern Ireland. As a not-for-profit housing association, working within social enterprise principles, they employ almost 700 staff throughout the group providing social and affordable housing both for rent and for sale.

Sam McKee, Director, added:

“We’re delighted to have supported Apex to secure the approval for 120 new homes from Lisburn’s planning committee. The site offers a true mix of homes that will work to support the NIHE need in the Lisburn with a strong amenity offering including a new playpark within the site. We welcome the positive decision from the committee to support the proposals that will continue to grow the supply of social homes whilst developing high-quality proposals to support the creation of vibrant and strong new communities in Lisburn.” 

7 December 2022