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Settlement Proposals
BELLAGHY Bellaghy is located on the A54 Portglenone to Magherafelt Road, 8 km north-east of Magherafelt town and 21⁄2 km west of Lough Beg. It is set in a landscape of low rolling hills, and wooded parkland at nearby Ballyscullion House. The village was founded in 1619 by the ‘Vintners Company’. The Company Bawn, now an Historic Monument in State Care, stands at the south-west entrance to the village at the head of Castle Street. It includes significant remains of the original complex and a later house with permanent Seamus Heaney exhibits. The original village was laid out along Castle Street and Mullaghboy Road, and later Main Street and William Street were created. Modern development has resulted in expansion of the village to the north-west and north-east, mainly in the form of housing estates. Bellaghy functions as a local service centre with a good range of facilities including several places of worship, shops, cafes, library, public houses, health centre, GAA Ground and two schools. The village has a small industrial base.
The settlement development limit is designated to take account of land with extant planning permission for housing and sites that have not yet been approved but which are at a stage in the planning application process where there is a reasonable expectation that planning approval will be granted. The settlement development limit also takes account of the role of the settlement whilst protecting its natural setting. The settlement development limit excludes the important landscapes to the north-east and south-west of the village, the Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club Ground on the Ballyscullion Road, other lands which are not committed to development and Best and Most Versatile (BMV) agricultural land, to prevent further ribbon development along the Oldtown Road. The settlement development limit also takes account of the setting of Bellaghy Bawn and the Church of Ireland Church and prevents ribbon development along the Old Town Road.
Housing Land designated as Housing Land Use Policy Areas will be developed in accordance with prevailing regional planning policy and the relevant Plan Proposals including key site requirements where specified. The following sites BY 02 – BY 09 are designated as Housing Land Use Policy Areas as identified on Map No. 83a - Bellaghy.
Full planning permission was granted for 40 dwellings on this site in October 2000 and all have been built.
Committed sites include sites with planning permission and sites that have not yet been approved but which are at a stage in the planning application process where there is a reasonable expectation that planning approval will be granted. Only those sites with approval or potential for 10 dwellings or more are designated for housing. The Plan does not stipulate key site requirements for these sites because future development will be subject to the conditions attached to planning permission. However, in the event that such permission may lapse, Planning Service may alter existing conditions or attach new conditions to any subsequent approval to take account of prevailing regional planning policy and the Plan Proposals. BY 03/1 Mullaghboy Road (1.38 hectares) Outline planning permission for housing development on this site was granted in September 2003. BY 03/2 Mullaghboy Road (0.9 hectares) There is a current outline planning application for housing development on this site. BY 03/3 Adjacent to William Court (1.3 hectares) There is a current planning application for housing on this site. BY 03/4 Castle Street (0.27 hectare) There is a current planning application for 13 dwellings on this site. BY 03/5 Gulladuff Road (3.26 hectares) There is a current outline planning application for housing development on this site.
Street and Springfield Park
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