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Airport partners with Tourism NI and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council for competition to celebrate region’s lesser known attractions and experiences

The Planning Committee of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council has granted planning permission to Fermac Properties Ltd for a major new residential development at Randalstown Road, Antrim. The development will be made of 123 dwellings, comprising 79 detached and 44 semi-detached dwellings, including garages, open space with children’s play area and landscaping.
 

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) on 20 December produced the second quarterly provisional planning statistics for 2018/19.
 
The figures from July to September 2018 showed that the Council’s Planning Team: -

• received 160 new applications
• took on average 24.2 weeks to process and decide Major planning applications, with this figure being well below the target of 30 weeks
• took an average of 13 weeks to process and decide local planning applications, instead of the target of 15 weeks.

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Communities from all four corners of the UK are donning their gardening gloves as they prepare to battle it out in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) 2019 Britain in Bloom competition.

Now in its 55th year, the fiercely fought contest will see 71 finalists put their horticultural skills, community spirit and green credentials to the test, from tiny Green Moor in Yorkshire with a population of just 90 to the high-rise business district of Canary Wharf in London’s docklands.

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