Northern Area Plan 2016
Coleraine Borough: Coleraine Settlement Designation

Coleraine is designated as a Main Hub in the Regional Development Strategy.

A development limit is defined for Coleraine sufficient to meet the town’s development needs and opportunities in the period up to the year 2016.

The developed limit on the northern side of the town has been realigned to exclude the undeveloped land around Ballysally House, which is a listed building within a Local Landscape Policy Area. Somerset Forest south of Coleraine has also been excluded from the development limit, because as a major landscape asset its development would be most undesirable, and to respect the distinctive character of Castleroe as a separate settlement. The development limit has also been redefined in the north west of the town, in the Ballycairn area, to exclude several housing zonings and which are no longer required if general conformity with the RDS District Housing Indicator is to be achieved.