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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.

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…