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18/01/2017
Plans Approved For New Student Accommodation In Belfast
The last of major new purpose built student accommodation complexes have been given the go-ahead by Belfast City Council.
Planning permission has been granted for the 307 bedroom development on York Street, adjacent to the new Ulster University campus. The 11-storey building brings to around 5,500 the number of student beds approved by the Council since it took over planning powers in April 2015.
Elsewhere, a new landmark in the Titanic Quarter has taken a step closer with the granting of planning permission for its installation.
The Mew Island Optic, which is to be installed on the new Titanic Walkway, is one of the last surviving lighthouse optics of its kind left in the world, and one of the largest ever constructed. Dating back to 1887, it was one of only 29 optics with a hyper-radical lenses. It was originally installed on Tory Island in Donegal but moved to Mew Island, the outermost of the Copeland Islands at the mouth of Belfast Lough, in 1924.
Chair of the Planning Committee, Councillor Peter Johnston, said: "Belfast City Council was pleased to be able to support the restoration of this important piece of maritime history, and we are equally delighted that now the next step has been taken to ensure that it will continue to play a prominent role, as one of the centrepiece attractions of the Titanic Quarter."
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Planning permission has been granted for the 307 bedroom development on York Street, adjacent to the new Ulster University campus. The 11-storey building brings to around 5,500 the number of student beds approved by the Council since it took over planning powers in April 2015.
Elsewhere, a new landmark in the Titanic Quarter has taken a step closer with the granting of planning permission for its installation.
The Mew Island Optic, which is to be installed on the new Titanic Walkway, is one of the last surviving lighthouse optics of its kind left in the world, and one of the largest ever constructed. Dating back to 1887, it was one of only 29 optics with a hyper-radical lenses. It was originally installed on Tory Island in Donegal but moved to Mew Island, the outermost of the Copeland Islands at the mouth of Belfast Lough, in 1924.
Chair of the Planning Committee, Councillor Peter Johnston, said: "Belfast City Council was pleased to be able to support the restoration of this important piece of maritime history, and we are equally delighted that now the next step has been taken to ensure that it will continue to play a prominent role, as one of the centrepiece attractions of the Titanic Quarter."
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