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Northern Area Plan 2016
Coleraine Borough: Coleraine Local Landscape Policy Areas (LLPAs)

Any proposals for development within these areas will be considered within the terms of Policy ENV 2 in Volume 1 of the Plan. Where additional degree of control is considered necessary this is specified below.
Designation CEL 01 Ballysally Burn LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This narrow belt of woodland, planted about 15 years ago, defines the north eastern edge of the town
  2. It is visually important from the ring road
Designation CEL 02 Dundooan House LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This area, including the grounds and setting of a listed building, includes visually significant tree groups.
  2. These mature strands of trees enhance the northern fringe of Coleraine.
Designation CEL 03 Shell Hill and Hermon Lodge LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This wedge consists of the town’s cemetery, an area of open space and several visually significant stands of mature trees.
  2. It also includes a large block of recently planted trees.
  3. Almost all the land is in public ownership.
Any development will be required to respect and facilitate retention of most of the existing trees.
Designation CEL 04 University LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This large area extends from the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster, west of Portstewart Road to include an area of open space in public ownership.
  2. It contains extensive tree groups and gardens, established over the past 35 years.
  3. These landscaped grounds now make a very significant and positive contribution to the landscape on the northern fringe of the town.
The continued development of institutional buildings within this area will be acceptable but will be required to have regard to the landscape framework of this area.
Designation CEL 05 Barview LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This prominent crest consists of significant groups of mature trees within the Green Belt
This LLPA within the Green Belt will be protected from development.
Designation CEL 06 Ballyarton LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. A prominent and attractive farm group, with considerable mature and very visually significant deciduous trees in the vicinity, on a crest defining the eastern edge of the town.
This LLPA is within the Green Belt and will be protected from development.
Designation CEL 07 The Brook LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a - Coleraine and Map No. 3/01b - Coleraine Town Centre.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. A scheduled back-land area, close to the centre of the town, incorporating a stream, adjoining wetlands and mature wooded slopes.
Any development will be required to retain the integrity of the wetland corridor and the mature wooded slopes.
Designation CEL 08 St. Malachy’s Church LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. An attractive listed building and associated church grounds, with significant tree groups creating a quiet oasis in the heart of the town.
Designation CEL 09 McMaster’s LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. A private dwelling with densely planted extensive grounds, effectively defining the south eastern gateway to the town.
Designation CEL 10 Overfields LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. A visually important spruce plantation within the Green Belt, helping to define the south eastern gateway to the town.
Designation CEL 11 Causeway Hospital LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. A modern hospital complex with extensive landscaped grounds laid out in the past decade.
  2. These maturing grounds are already making a very considerable landscape contribution to the Newbridge Road, Ring Road and rail approaches to Coleraine.
  3. It includes extensive gardens to the rear and a wide tree belt along the south eastern boundary.
Designation CEL 12 Knocktarna LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3 – Coleraine Borough and Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This LLPA includes the Knocktarna designated SLNCI along with the established wooded grounds of the listed building at Knocktarna and an adjoining section of heavily wooded steep banks of the River Bann.
The area is within the Green Belt. No further development is appropriate.
Designation CEL 13 Knockantern LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This covers the landscaped grounds of low density housing, extensive and visually significant woodland on the steep slopes rising from the River Bann.
  2. It also includes the Knockantern designated SLNCI.
The only additional development acceptable will be single dwellings where it can be demonstrated that the visual integrity of this area is maintained.
Designation CEL 14 Castleroe Forest and Bann Banks LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3 – Coleraine Borough and Map No. 3/01a – Coleraine.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. An attractive area of riverside plantation and parkland rising up from Curragh Road, in an area with historical associations, including the High Cross at Camus.

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This entire area is within the Green Belt and will generally be protected from development.
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