Michael Kenwood

Another application for Irish signs at a South Belfast street has been rejected by a Belfast City Council committee despite it reaching the threshold for residential approval.

A councillor has called for the rollout of residents’ car parking in Belfast following the publication of a review of a pilot scheme in the south of the city.

Ards and North Down calls for NI wide nappy collections and launches cloth nappy trial

The developers say they intend to demolish the existing buildings early in the new year and build soon after

Councillors in Belfast have voted to demolish the city’s “ugliest building” – Fanum House.

A DUP councillor has said Belfast’s Christmas lights switch-on needs “somebody more exciting” than the Lord Mayor to host it — despite all tickets for this year’s event being claimed “faster than Oasis”.

DUP and Sinn Féin push through application against official advice

A plan for a new elderly residential care and nursing facility in the Village area of south Belfast has been approved despite council officials warning the site lies on a flood plain.

“I always remember growing up as a kid, we always had some kind of celebrity or pop star, or somebody exciting. I know tickets sold out quite quickly, but it would be nice to see that coming back."

"We have had numerous people, including conservation architects, look through the building and agree that the rear building has little or nothing of architectural merit"