Senior Stormont politicians have been banging the drum for the development benefits which should flow to the North West of Northern Ireland as a result of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) moving its headquarters from Belfast to Ballkelly.
Finance minister Michael Noonan has launched a public consultation on plans to introduce a vacant site levy on owners of residential zoned land in Ireland which is not being developed.
Discussion and a vote on the second version of the Scottish capital’s Local Development Plan (LDP2) originally expected later this month (February) has been deferred until mid-May.
Welsh planning minister Carl Sargeant has published the details of the new notification regime, which has now come into force, designed to curb “fracking”.