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  • Improving places

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    • Regeneration
    The Department improves places using various schemes and covers all sorts of public areas from major town and city developments to small neighbourhood projects.  We also have responsibility for Former New Town Lands and are accountable for the creating shared public spaces theme of the PEACE programmes. 

    Key Projects

    St Patricks Barracks, Ballymena

    A flagship project will deliver over £160 m of investment through a mixed-use housing-led development.

    Queen's Parade, Bangor

    Proposals for a £50m+ development on Bangor's waterfront Queen's Parade.

    Fort George, L'Derry

    A major 11-acre mixed use development on the Derry~Londonderry site.

    More in this topic

    • A Bolder Vision for Belfast - reimagining our city centre
    • Armagh Place Plan
    • St Patrick's Regeneration
    • Castlereagh Urban Framework (September 2021)
    • Comprehensive development schemes
    • Development briefs
    • EU Peace IV Programme
    • PEACEPLUS Programme
    • Former new town lands
    • Irish Street Downpatrick development scheme
    • Portrush Regeneration Programme
    • Public realm / environmental improvement
    • Regeneration of Queen's Parade, Bangor
    • Urban Development Grant Scheme
    • Urban regeneration plans and frameworks
    • Urban Development Grants: Portrush
    • Writers' Square
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