Department of Environment

Planning responsibilities set to be redistributed as departments culled in Northern Ireland

04.02.2016

Roger Milne

Department of Environment | Housing | Infrastructure | Northern Ireland | Rural | Stormont | Turley

Legislation cutting the number of Stormont departments from 12 to nine has cleared its final hurdle in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Social housing programme kicks-off

07.05.2015

Roger Milne

Alan Kelly | Department of Environment | Housing | Ireland | social housing

The government has announced plans to build 1,700 housing units in the first phase of its ambitious country-wide €3.8 billion social housing programme.
£1.25m NI environment fund opened

05.05.2015

Laura Edgar

Department of Environment | Environment | Environmental assessment/ sustainability appraisal | Mark H Durkan | Northern Ireland

Environment minister Mark H Durkan has inaugurated the Natural Environment Fund (NEF) to protect Northern Ireland’s landscape, species and access to the countryside.
Irish Government considers €80m fund to help regenerate urban centres

30.04.2015

Roger Milne

Department of Environment | Ireland | Regeneration

A package of measures aimed at breathing new life into towns and city centres blighted by shop closures and vacant sites is to be announced by the Irish Government.
Northern Ireland round-up: Budget deal announced, Stormont shake-up

22.01.2015

Roger Milne

Belfast | Business & Enterprise | Department of Environment | Environmental assessment/ sustainability appraisal | Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland Executive | Stormont | The National Trust

A round-up of planning news in Northern ireland: 17 January-25 January, 2015