Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015
Policy Index: Strategic Plan Framework
Settlement
- Designation SETT1: Designation of Settlements
- Policy SETT2: Development within Settlement Development Limits
- Policy SETT3: City and Town Centres
- Policy SETT4: Arterial Routes within Belfast
- Policy SETT5: Development Opportunity Sites
- Policy SETT6: Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland
Housing
- Allocation HOU1: Housing
- Policy HOU2: Social Housing
- Policy HOU3: Social Housing
- Policy HOU4: City and Town Centre Living
- Policy HOU5: Protected Housing Areas in City and Town Centres
- Policy HOU6: Conversion of Buildings for Multiple Occupation
- Policy HOU 7: Accommodation for the Travelling Community
Employment
Transportation
- Policy TRAN 1: Public Transport, Walking and Cycling
- Policy TRAN 2: Planning Protection for Transportation Schemes
- Policy TRAN 3: Road Scheme Abandonments
- Policy Tran 4: Parking Standards within Areas of Parking Restraints
- Policy TRAN 5: Publicly owned Off Street Surface Cap Parks within City and Town Centres
Retailing
- Policy R1: Retailing in City and Town Centres
- Policy R2: Primary Retail Frontages
- Policy R3: Belfast Regional Shopping Centre
- Policy R4: Sprucefield Regional Shopping Centre
- Policy R5: District Centres
- Policy R6: Arterial Routes and Local Centres (Dundonald, Dunmurry, Glengormley)
- Policy R7: Local Shops
Offices
- Policy OF1: Belfast City Centre Main Office Area, Lisburn City Centre and other Town Centres
- Policy OF2: Office development of up to 400 sq m - Within Belfast City Centre (outside Belfast City Centre Main Office rea), Commercial Nodes and Local Centres
- Policy OF3: Office development of up to 200 sq m - Shopping/Commercial Areas
- Policy OF4: Office Development in Major Employment Locations (MELs)
- Policy OF5: Queens University Office Area
- Policy OF6: Stormont Office Node
Urban Environment
- Policy UE1: Urban Design
- Policy UE2: Conservation Areas
- Policy UE3: Areas of Townscape Character and Areas of Village Character
- Policy UE4: Quality in New Non-Residential Developments
- Policy UE5: Security Grilles and Shutters
- Policy UE6: Car Parking and New Development in City and Town Centres
- Policy UE7: Urban Landscape Wedges
- Policy UE8: Air Quality
Natural Environment
- Policy ENV1: Protection of Biodiversity
- Policy ENV2: Sites of Local Nature Conservation Importance
- Policy ENV3: Local Landscape Policy Areas
Countryside and Coast
- Designation COU1: BMA Green Belt
- Policy COU2: Rural Landscape Wedges
- Designation COU3: BMA Coastal Area
- Policy COU4: BMA Coastal Area
- Policy COU5: Urban Waterfronts
- Designation COU6: Areas of High Scenic Value
- Policy COU7: Areas of High Scenic Value
- Policy COU8: Area of Constraint on Mineral Development
- Designation COU9: Area of Constraint on Mineral Development
- Policy COU10: Hydrocarbon Exploration
- Policy COU11: Belfast Hills Access Points
- Designation COU12: Lagan Valley Regional Park
- Policy COU13: Development Proposals outside the Metropolitan Development Limit and Settlement Development Limits in the Lagan Valley Regional Park
- Policy COU14: Lagan Valley Regional Park Nodes
- Policy COU15: Development Proposals in the Lagan Valley Regional Park within the Metropolitan Development Limit and Settlement Development Limits
Recreation and Open Space
- Policy OS1: Protection of Land for the Provision of Open Space
- Policy OS2: Community Greenways
- Policy OS3: New Open Space Provision
- Policy OS4: Open Space in Association with Major Non Residential Development Proposals
Tourism
- Policy T1: Tourism Development within the Metropolitan Development Limit and Settlement Development Limits
- Policy T2: Tourism Development outside the Metropolitan Development Limit and Settlement Development Limits
- Policy T3: Protection of the Settings of Tourism Assets
Utilities
Community Facilities
- Policy CF1: Protection of land for Education, Health, Community and Cultural Facilities
- Policy CF2: Education, Health, Community and Cultural Facilities
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