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Northern Area Plan 2016
Ballymoney Borough: Ballymoney Town Centre

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The Plan seeks to maintain a vibrant, compact, multi-functional town centre, which effectively functions as the focus of community and commercial life not just for the town, but for all of the Borough. A major retail household survey of summer 2003 concluded that only 45% of all retail expenditure from Ballymoney Borough takes place within Ballymoney town. The town centre had experienced considerable decline throughout the 1970s and 1980s, with only small scale commercial investment in that period. In the past decade however, there has been an increase in commercial investment including a major food retailer, complemented by extensive good quality refurbishment of commercial properties in the heart of the town and upgrading of the main commercial streets. The Plan seeks to build on this by providing for significant town centre development and maintaining it as a vibrant shopping location with complementary commercial, leisure and housing uses.
Town Centre Designation BYT 01 Ballymoney Town Centre
A Town Centre is designated as identified in Map No. 2/01 b - Ballymoney Town Centre.
A town centre is defined, within which all retail development will normally be required to locate. This has been defined to exclude all significant housing groups which are considered to have a viable future as a residential environment. Within this town centre boundary a considerable number of development opportunities are identified including gap sites and properties requiring redevelopment or major refurbishment to bring them back into beneficial use. The Plan designates the following major development opportunity sites.

Development Opportunity Sites

The Plan identifies the following major development opportunities. Proposals will be assessed against Policy SET 3: Proposals on Development Opportunity Sites, in Volume 1 of the Plan.
Zoning BYT 02 Linenhall Street, Development Opportunity (0.35 ha.)
Key site requirements
  • A mixed development including any combination of retailing, offices, recreational and residential will be acceptable.
  • Any development shall not exceed three storeys in height.
  • The design and finishes shall be of a high standard and enhance the appearance of Linenhall Street and High Street.
Zoning BYT 03 Meeting House Street, Development Opportunity (1.08 ha.)
Key site requirements
  • A high density housing scheme will be acceptable on this central site with excellent accessibility (up to 100 dwellings per hectare).
  • Commercial development including warehousing and offices will be acceptable on this site. The only retail development acceptable will be retail warehousing with units of not less than 900 square metres gross floorspace, selling predominantly bulky goods.
  • Any development shall not exceed three storeys in height.
  • The design and finishes shall be of a high standard and enhance the appearance of Meeting House Street. The boundary to the railway shall be landscaped to a high standard and the elevational treatment of any buildings fronting the railway shall be of a good quality.
In addition to the major development opportunities the Plan identifies eight target sites. These are smaller individual properties where major refurbishment or redevelopment will be acceptable provided the scale, height, design and finishes of any proposal will make a positive contribution to the townscape.
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