Planning

Current Planning Schedule

Recent planning applications scheduled for the Mid and East Antrim Planning Committee

Speaking Rights

Anyone can register speaking rights to speak on a planning application. 

Speaking rights are limited to those planning applications listed on the Agenda for the up-coming Planning Committee.

Speaking rights will be limited to 4 minutes. 

If more than one person wishes to speak in support or against an application, they will be expected to split the allocated 4 minutes.

Those wishing to address the Committee must register their wish to do so with the Council’s Chief Administrative Officer / Committee Administrator by 12noon two working days before the meeting.

Contact: pauline.blair@midandeastantrim.gov.uk  or libby.graham-metz@midandeastantrim.gov.uk

If you have queries as to how the Planning Committee operates, you can read the Protocol for the Operation of the Planning Committee.

Planning Committee Meeting of 28 November 2024

Application Reference

Application Category

Description of Development

Location

Recommendation

LA02/2023/1577/F

Local

Proposed erection of a Battery Energy Storage System Facility 100MW (BESS) and associated 33kV transformers, including 2 no. switch houses with control rooms, lighting and Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) columns, new site boundary fencing and landscaping proposals, new site access and laneway, and ancillary development works.

Lands approx. 950m SE of Ballylumford Power Station and approx.40m south of No’s 87 & 89 Ballylumford Road, Islandmagee.

Approve

LA02/2024/0673/F 

Local

Alteration and Extension to Existing Dwelling.

7 Glendun Drive, Ballymena.

Approve

LA02/2024/0672/F

Local

Refurbishment, including internal and external alterations, of redundant ground floor public WC accommodation to provide new office space and disabled WC provision.

4 Wellington Court, Ballymena.

Approve

LA02/2024/0661/F 

Local

Conversion of arts centre floorspace into office space.

The Braid Civic Building and Town Hall, Bridge Street Ballymena.

Approve