'There is a difference between what people want to invest in and what people want to live in.'
A planning application for a major set of city centre apartment blocks has been delayed by Belfast councillors due to concerns about a lack of social and affordable housing.
At a meeting of Belfast City Council’s Planning Committee this week, councillors not only questioned the lack of provision of social housing, but also criticised the applicant’s planning consultant for the tone of his deputation. A vote to carry the officer’s recommendation for approval fell, with four votes in favour from the DUP, UUP and PUP, while Sinn Féin, Alliance, the Green Party and People Before Profit voted against the recommendation.
He added: “We have found in other applications, knowing the direction of travel, that the ambition of developers would be voluntary offers of 20 percent social and affordable. I completely appreciate the agent’s view on it, in terms of how we have to comply, but a bit of ambition in terms of what we are trying to achieve in this city.”
SDLP Councillor and committee chair Carl Whyte said: “It is the first time I have been the chair of this committee where I actually feel the committee has been instructed almost in the tone of the presentation. Judging by the reaction of other councillors here, they share that.” “And with the number of one person-one bedroom apartments, I struggle to see what need that is meeting, beyond students.”
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