TSA Planning and Heron Property Ltd Tobermore Road Pre-Application Community Consultation

Policy Considerations

Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 Section 45 (1) of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 requires regard to be had to relevant policies and designations within the Development Plan, and to any other material considerations. Magherafelt Area Plan 2015 The Magherafelt Area Plan 2015 became operative on the 14th December 2011. As the Mid Ulster District Council Local Development has not yet been adopted, the Magherafelt Area Plan 2015 is the prevailing planning guidance, including for land-use Zonings, Designations and Proposals Maps.

Magherafelt Area Plan 2015 Extract (site outline in red) The subject land is located within the Local Landscape Policy Area – MT 34 and within the Countryside. Within Local Landscape Policy Areas, proposals will be assessed in accordance with Plan Policy CON 2 and prevailing Regional Plan Policy. LLPA North and East Magherafelt is designated on Map no 5. The Area Plan text states that those features or a combination of features that contribute to the environmental quality, integrity or character of these area includes; ‘significant groups of mature trees along the Tobermore Road and adjacent field boundaries, north of the hospital road junction, for a good entrance feature to the town’. As the subject site is located outside the settlement limits of Magherafelt, Planning Policy Statement 21: Sustainable Development in the Countryside and Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning and Economic Development will apply.