10Jun 2016 by clive
Boucher Square

Boucher Square

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This proposal brought a new concept to retail warehouse parks in NI, that being a stand alone restaurant/food court. This site had a complex planning history which Pragma assisted the client in negotiating a path through to obtain consent for this scheme. Although now complete, planning permission has been granted to extend it further with work due to commence on site shortly.
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10Jun 2016 by clive
Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle

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Dunluce Castle Tourist Visitors Centre involves the provision of a new visitors centre adjacent to the castle. Pragma were instructed after the project had been in the planning system for several years and had become stagnated. We in association with Carson McDowell Solicitors injected new life into the project, following a fundamental review of the issues, which were obviously heritage, archaeology, visual impact and planning policy related. In addition there was competition from a rival scheme some distance away that was being promoted by NIEA. The forensic review of the project necessitated some alterations to the scheme but resulted in a planning permission being granted at Planning Appeal for the same floorspace as had originally been sought. The scheme is progressing to reserved matters at present.
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20May 2016 by clive
Belvoir Park Project

Belvoir Park Project

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Belvoir Park, which is currently on site, is set to become one of Belfast’s most prestigious residential developments. Pragma were instructed from the outset to undertake a fundamental review of the previous outline planning permission and provide strategic advice to the London based client on how to take the scheme forward. The project involved close collaboration with the various architectural practices working on the scheme to ensure the issues of conservation, contamination, ecology and roads were adequately addressed. We also established a close working relationship with NIEA in respect of the Listed Buildings across the site and ensured that the scheme progressed through revisions to the original masterplan and a series of reserved matters and non-material change applications that ensured refurbishment of individual listed buildings were undertaken in association with…
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19Jun 2014 by clive

Pragma Planning obtains Planning Permission for new hotel complex

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Planning Permission has been approved for a new 66 bed hotel with leisure and conference facilities, restaurants, bars and associated car parking and landscaping works. The planning application was submitted in March 2011 for the new hotel, leisure and conference complex on the Glenavy Road, Lisburn. The application process involved in depth negotiation with Road Service and Lisburn City Council’s Environmental Health Department to bring forward this highly valuable planning consent which will. When the development is constructed the new hotel, leisure and conference venue will supplement the existing high quality hotel provision within the City and will provide a choice of venues within Lisburn.
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18Jun 2014 by clive

Planning Application approved for Caffe Nero in Bangor

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A Planning Application submitted by Pragma Planning for a new Caffe Nero coffee shop on Main Street, Bangor has been Granted by DoE Planning. The Planning Application was submitted by Pragma on behalf of Caffe Nero on 5 December 2011 and was for a new coffee shop on Main Street, Bangor. This represents the 4th new store for which Pragma Planning has obtained Planning Permission on behalf of Caffe Nero. The Planning Application was approved under Article 28A of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 on 21 March 2012.
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18Jun 2014 by clive

Minister announces that planning approval is to be granted for redevelopment of 41-49 Queen Street

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In a statement published on DoE’s Planning Portal it has been announced that following an exhaustive assessment of all issues from every angle, DOE Planning has taken the decision to grant planning permission for ground floor retail units and residential development on the upper floors In making this difficult decision The Environment Minister has concluded that it is, with regret, the better way to proceed. The existing building on the site is vacant apart from the part occupied by Athletic Stores and despite a rigorous and lengthy marketing campaign by the owner and his agent no alternative use could be found for the building which contains a number of significant structural problems. The new development will replace it. The Minister has exhaustively considered options to save the existing building which…
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18Jun 2014 by clive

New business park for Newtownabbey?

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A Planning Application for a new mixed business park is taken forward to Newtownabbey Borough Council with a recommendation to approve. The planning application which is on next weeks planning schedule has been a long awaited one but will give consent for Office, Indistry and Storage and Distribution uses in a range of sizes of units which will assist in the provision of employment to the wider Newtownabbey area and should be welcomed. This planning permission together with a proposed approval for Brett Martin in Mallusk shows a commitment to providing additional floorspace in a range of locations suitable for modern business uses. It also shows a renewed willingness on behalf of decision makers to facilitate business start-ups and expansion of existing large scale enterprises in the Newtownabbey area.
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18Jun 2014 by clive

New Business Park gets Planning Permission.

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Planning Permission granted for new business park in Newtownabbey. Pragma Planning in conjunction with Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects and Aecom have on behalf of COMTEC obtained planning permission for a new business park on Church Road Newtownabbey. After protracted negotiations with Road Service during which information had to be reporduced on multiple occasions planning permission has finally been approved by Newtownabbey Borough Council. This planning permission ensures that the development which is for over 100,000 sq ft of mixed business uses have ensured that Newtownabbey is firmly on the employment map with a range of building sizes and types that allow great flexibility to business occupiers in this highly accessible location.
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18Jun 2014 by clive

Back to the future for Derry drinks company

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Pragma Planning have assisted Exitoso on behalf of Niche Drinks in submitting a planning application on the old Leckpatrick Diary on Rossdowney Road. At the end of the 19th century and well into the early 20th century, Derry was a world leader in whiskey production, and the Watts Distillery at Abbey Street was the largest distillery in Ireland. Now local cream liqueur manufacturer Niche Drinks aims to revive that once proud tradition and are intent on building a new distillery in the town. Niche Drinks, formerly St. Brendan’s Irish Cream Liqueur Co., have been manufacturing and exporting cream liqueurs from their site at the old Leckpatrick Dairy on Rossdowney Road for almost 30 years, but as Managing Director Ciaran Mulgrew pointed out, keeping the site up to modern day production…
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