Local Development Plan

Council Employment Priorities
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Council Employment Priorities
The Council aims to:
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Economic Strategy 25
• Support Economic Development
The Council aims to:
• Identify & Safeguard adequate land for economic and industry
• development
Support Economic Development
• Engage Identify with & Safeguard regional, adequate national & land European for economic organisations and industry to
attract development & optimise funding opportunities to support the area
• Engage Deliver regeneration with regional, projects national including & European the organisations Castlereagh Urban to
attract Integrated & optimise Development funding Framework opportunities & the to Lisburn support City the Centre area
• Masterplan Deliver regeneration projects including the Castlereagh Urban
• Enhance Integrated Business Development Development Framework & the Lisburn City Centre
• Develop Masterplan a sustainable Rural Economic Development Plan
• Develop, Enhance Business market & Development
implement a Tourism Strategy
• Develop an a sustainable Economic Vision Rural Economic Development Plan
• Develop, market & implement a Tourism Strategy
• Develop an Economic Vision
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Draft Economic Development Action
Plan 2015-2017
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Draft Economic Development Action
Objectives:
Plan 2015-2017
• Expand and diversify employment opportunities, including highervalue
jobs to strengthen the local economy
• Retain Expand talent and diversify & Invest employment in Skills, to ensure opportunities, local skills including match local higher-
Objectives:
business value jobs needs to strengthen the local economy
• Establish Retain talent the Council & Invest area in Skills, as a premier to ensure investment local skills location match local
• Enhanced business needs EU Connections
• Establish the Council area as a premier investment location
• Enhanced EU Connections
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West Lisburn Development Framework
The framework vision for the West Lisburn Area is:
West Lisburn Development Framework
“To realise the potential of the West Lisburn area by 2035 through
The framework vision for the West Lisburn Area is:
setting a framework that recognises and promotes the regionally
significant “To realise features the potential contained of the therein West Lisburn and connects area by these 2035 features through in a
sustainable setting a framework manner that will recognises promote and social promotes and economic the regionally growth and
prosperity significant for features the entire contained region.” therein and connects these features in a
sustainable manner that will promote social and economic growth and
This vision will be achieved through the implementation of the following
prosperity for the entire region.”
Strategic Objectives:
This vision will be achieved through the implementation of the following
• Prioritise the development of the Knockmore Link Road as the
Strategic Objectives:
key piece of infrastructure required to unlock the development
• potential Prioritise the of West development Lisburn. of the Knockmore Link Road as the
• Improve key piece existing of infrastructure and develop required new integrated to unlock multi-mode the development
transport potential of infrastructure West Lisburn. into and throughout West Lisburn.
• Promote Improve existing new and and expand develop existing new employment integrated multi-mode uses in the West
Lisburn transport area. infrastructure into and throughout West Lisburn.
• Promote and new encourage and expand appropriate existing employment development uses at in the the Maze West
Lands Lisburn site area. to reflect its status as a ‘Strategic Land Reserve of
• Regional Promote Importance’.
and encourage appropriate development at the Maze
• Encourage Lands site to the reflect development its status of as new a ‘Strategic residential Land development Reserve of to
support Regional growth Importance’. in the area, whilst respecting existing
• settlements.
Encourage the development of new residential development to
• Protect support and growth enhance in the significant area, whilst and respecting valuable landscape existing areas and
waterways. settlements.
• Protect and enhance the significant ‘Regional and Significance’ valuable landscape of Sprucefield areas and
and waterways. expand its retailing role.
• Increase Protect and sport, enhance recreation the ‘Regional and leisure Significance’ activity in of the Sprucefield West Lisburn
area, and expand with a its particular retailing focus role. on the River Lagan corridor.
• Increase sport, recreation and leisure activity in the West Lisburn
area, with a particular focus on the River Lagan corridor.
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Key Issues and Options