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Northern Ireland Planning Service

Northern Area Plan 2016
Strategic Plan Framework: Transportation Protected Routes Network

The Government, for the past 20 years, has sought to maintain the efficiency and safety of the main road system between the Region’s towns, through Protected Routes, where normally additional accesses, or development that would intensify the use of existing accesses are not approved. The detailed policies are contained within PPS 3: Access, Movement and Parking. The Department of Environment will continue to safeguard the existing Protected Routes, which are as follows:
  1. A2 Coleraine through Portstewart to Portrush
  2. A2 Limavady to Londonderry
  3. A6 Maghera through Dungiven to Londonderry
  4. A26 Ballymena to Coleraine
  5. A29 Swatragh through Garvagh through Coleraine to Portrush
  6. A37 Coleraine to Limavady
  7. A44 Ballycastle fork to Ballycastle
  8. B62 Ballymoney to Portrush
  9. B67 Coleraine through Ballybogy to Ballycastle
  10. B68 Limavady to Dungiven
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