Northern Ireland Planning Service

Northern Area Plan 2016
Coleraine Borough: Kilrea 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 an additional degree of control is considered necessary this is specified below.
Designation KAL 01 Kathleen’s Lough LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. Located to the south east of the town, this LLPA is centred on Woodhall Residential Centre. It includes attractive small hills and Kathleen’s Lough which is a designated SLNCI.
  2. The area comprises small fields, large planted gardens and numerous mature trees.
  3. Boundaries with a mix of thick hawthorn, semi-mature ash, sycamore, pine and elder scrub, provide good wildlife corridors.
No further development will generally be acceptable in this LLPA, unless it can be demonstrated that the landscape character would not be diminished.
Designation KAL 02 St. Patrick’s LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This LLPA is located at the southern end of Church Street and includes all of the churchyard of the listed St. Patrick’s Church.
The integrity of this focal building and its LLPA setting shall be fully respected.
Designation KAL 03 Washing Lough LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. This LLPA lies to the east of the village centre and is comprised of threedistinct areas.
  2. The first is a large field to the rear of properties along Church Street and Bridge Street and includes a smaller field located on the opposite side of Moneygran Road.
  3. The second is Washing Lough and the third is the Manor Golf Club and its extensive, associated grounds.
  4. There are mature deciduous trees along the boundaries and within the grounds of the golf course.
Apart from the appropriate, sensitive development of the site west of Washing Lough (see KAH 07), no further development will acceptable within this LLPA.
Designation KAL 04 Mill Brook LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. Situated to the north of the village, this LLPA includes Kilrea Dam, a designated SLNCI, along with a covered ‘holy well’ and Millbrook, a former mill located within a secluded, wooded site.
  2. The LLPA has good boundary hedgerows, dispersed small woods and numerous stands of mature trees.
Designation KAL 05 Portneal LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3 – Coleraine Borough and Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
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 a section of countryside between a broad meander of the River Bann and the eastern flank of Kilrea.
  2. The LLPA straddles Bann Road and includes low lying farm land, a conifer plantation, and the Portneal Lodge complex.
Only development which has a specific requirement to be located within this LLPA will be acceptable.
Designation KAL 06 Horse Fair Green LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. Adjoining the former horse fair green, this LLPA includes a large group of mature beech trees on sloping ground at the north west of the site.
This LLPA will be retained free from any further development.
Designation KAL 07 Former Derry Central Railway LLPA
A Local Landscape Policy Area is designated as identified on Map No. 3/03 – Kilrea.
Those features or combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of this area are listed below.
  1. The line of the former Derry Central railway with its tree lined route provides a valuable wildlife corridor.

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This LLPA will be protected from any development which would be detrimental to its visual and habitat functions.
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