Local Development Plan

• Promote mixed-use development and improve integration
between transport, economic development and other land uses,
including housing
• Ensure a high standard of quality and design for new economic
development.
Planning authorities should recognise and encourage proposals that could
make an important contribution to sustainable economic growth when
drawing up new plans. The guiding principle for policies and proposals for
economic development in the countryside is to facilitate proposals likely
to benefit the rural economy and support rural communities, while
protecting and enhancing rural character and environment.
A fundamental role for the Local Development Plan is to:
• ensure that there is an ample supply of suitable land to meet
economic development needs within the Plan area
• identify previously developed land within settlements for
potential economic development use, and identify opportunities
for mixed use development
• specify the type or range of economic development uses
acceptable within zoned sites
• include key site requirements to ensure developers provide
necessary infrastructure.
Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning & Economic Development (PPS 4)
PPS 4 facilitates the economic development needs of the region in ways
consistent with the protection of the environment and the principles of
sustainable development.
The objectives of PPS 4 are to:
• promote sustainable economic development
• tackle disadvantage and facilitate job creation
• sustain a vibrant rural community
• support the re-use of previously developed economic
development sites and buildings
• promote mixed use development and improve integration
between transport, economic development and other land uses,
including housing
• ensure a high standard of quality and design for new economic
development.
Enabling Success: A Strategy to Tackle Economic Inactivity in Northern
Ireland, DEL/DETI (published April 2015)
‘Enabling Success’ sets out the Northern Ireland Executive’s long-term
approach to tackling economic inactivity in a progressive and sustainable
way. The strategy outlines a range of measures, based on voluntary
participation, which are designed to help individuals in economically
inactive groups to make the transition towards, and into, work.
The labour market barriers faced by these groups are varied and complex,
ranging from a lack of skills and qualifications to low levels of selfconfidence
and motivation and negative perceptions of, and attitudes
towards, work.
This strategy seeks to address these issues by recognising the diverse
nature of these groups and ensuring that interventions designed to help
them towards the labour market will be person-focused and based upon
voluntary participation. The strategy also seeks to ensure that wider
issues, such as societal attitudes towards older workers or individuals
with mental health conditions, do not impede their progress towards
work.
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Key Issues and Options