Northern Area Plan 2016
Limavady Borough: Foreglen

Foreglen is a small linear settlement located 6 kilometres west of Dungiven on the A6 Foreglen Road, a Key Transport Corridor linking the cities of Belfast and Londonderry. It comprises a mix of public authority and private sector housing, with a number of local services and facilities in the village including a local primary school, church, shop, post office, public house, and recreational facilities at O’Briens GAC playing fields.

Foreglen Road provides good access to Dungiven and to Londonderry, 23 kilometres to the north west. The District Town of Limavady is 18 kilometres to the north. Although the village has good road links, it has relatively limited public transport connections.

The population of the village at 2001 was 285. Foreglen is designated a Small Village in the Settlement Hierarchy in Volume 1 of the Plan.

The development limit will restrict further elongation of the village, and consolidate the existing settlement form through infill development on the Old Foreglen Road, and between Altagarran Road and the playing fields to the south.