Banbridge / Newry and Mourne Area Plan 2015
Strategic Plan Framework: Housing
Housing continues to represent the greatest pressure on the land resource throughout Northern Ireland and in the Banbridge and Newry and Mourne Districts. It is likely to continue to be the most widespread urban land-use change for many years to come. Need for additional housing land is created by the formation of new households through natural increase in the population, net inward migration and the trend to smaller household sizes. That need includes variety in dwelling size, type and tenure to meet the particular requirements of groups such as the elderly, people with limited incomes and people with disabilities.
