Local Development Plan

E | SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE
As referred to in Part 6, research conducted on the policy context and
evidence base for the Local Development Plan identified the following
strategic objective which informs the discussion of key issues and options:
Strategic Objective E: Supporting Sustainable Transport and Other
Infrastructure
• To develop strategic policy to support the growth of Lisburn City
Centre and exploit its highly strategic location on the Key Transport
Corridors and rail network
• To protect the designation of key pieces of strategic infrastructure
and promote linkages across the Council area.
• To promote active and increased opportunities for sustainable
travel including walking, cycling and public transport and reduce the
need to travel by private car
• To promote greenways and enhanced access to these areas to
support walking, cycling and biodiversity
• To recognise the value of blue infrastructure to contribute to
sustainable urban drainage infrastructure and its contribution to
human health
• To contribute to reducing climate change by minimising greenhouse
gas emissions, mitigating and adapting to climate change and
building in flood resilience
• To support renewables infrastructure whilst affording protection to
the environment including landscape impacts of wind energy
• To support recycling and reduction in waste disposal to reduce
environmental impacts.
Department for Infrastructure. This process, whilst separate from the LDP
preparation, ensures that transportation proposals affecting the Plan area
are co-ordinated and integrated with land use planning.
A Strategy for Other Infrastructure (including Renewable Energy,
Telecommunications and Waste Management) will also be provided to
facilitate the delivery of infrastructure requirements over the Plan period.
Both Strategies will be based on the consideration of Options presented
in this paper which are subject to sustainability appraisal.
The following seven Key Issues for Supporting Transport and Other
Infrastructure have been identified:
• Key Issue 22: Retention of Key Transportation Infrastructure
Schemes (Road and Rail)
• Key Issue 23: Retention of Key Park & Ride Sites
• Key Issue 24: Promoting Active Travel (walking, cycling and public
transport)
• Key Issue 25: Connecting People and Places – Greenways
• Key Issue 26: Renewable Energy
• Key Issue 27: Telecommunications
• Key Issue 28: Waste Management
For each of these key issues a number of options have been presented
and the Council’s Preferred Option is identified. In some instances, only
one option is identified where alternative options have not been
considered possible/viable.
Transport proposals over the Plan period will be facilitated through a
Transport Plan and Strategy prepared in conjunction with the
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Key Issues and Options