DOA_01 Sailortown, Greater Clarendon and City Quays Masterplan

Role of Supplementary Planning Guidance

This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) provides advice on the future visions and roles of a series of Development Opportunity Areas (DOAs) identified across the city centre, with an emphasis on placemaking principles and good urban design practice.

This SPG forms one in a suite of guidance documents and applies to specific opportunity areas identified within the Belfast City Centre boundary and is intended to be a point of reference for:

• Planning officers - in assessing and making recommendations on planning applications.
• Elected members - who make decisions on planning applications.
• Applicants and their multidisciplinary design teams (urban designers, architects, landscape architects, developers and planning consultants) - in preparation of planning applications.
• Communities and their local representatives.
• Other interested stakeholders within the planning process.

This SPG represents non-statutory planning guidance that supports, clarifies or illustrates by example, policies contained within the current planning policy framework, including development plans and regional planning guidance.

The information set out in this SPG should therefore be read in conjunction with the existing planning policy framework, most notably the Strategic Planning Policy Statement (SPPS) for Northern Ireland and policies contained within the Belfast Local Development Plan (LDP).

Front façade of St Joseph’s Church, Sailortown

Photograph of City Quays Garden, a high-quality public space off Corporation Square