A major new social housing estate has been approved for Ballymurphy in West Belfast.
At the recent meeting of the Belfast City Council Planning Committee, elected members approved a social housing-led residential development comprising 122 homes, at lands north of Mill Race and Belfield Heights and south of St Gerards Manor, Ballymurphy.
The site, which was formerly used for a school, will also have pedestrian and cycle ways, public open space, a children's play area, landscaping (including an eight metre landscaped buffer to the western boundary), boundary treatments, parking, and access via the provision of a right turn lane.