AQW 148/10

Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 09/09/2009
Answered On Date: 21/09/2009
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of the Environment for his assessment as to whether the landscape plans, which formed part of Planning Application Z/2008/0489/F, would have been acceptable to Landscape Branch in the context of the mature trees which were subject to Tree Preservation Orders having been still in situ.

Answer:

Landscape Branch was consulted on the amended landscape planting plan. In their reply of 7 October 2008 they noted that the building footprints had been reduced and redesigned and that some TPO trees had been removed. They confirmed that they had no objection in principle to the proposed development. I am unable to speculate as to whether their comments would have been any different had the TPO trees still be in situ.