Approval given to the first phase of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge across the River Lagan has been welcomed as a “significant development”.
While a bridge in the area has been subject to plans over decades, planning permission for the latest project was granted back in 2016, however work has not yet commenced.
The bridge between the Gasworks and Ormeau Park was part of the Belfast Region City Deal funded and agreed by the UK Government last year.
The new approval by the Belfast City Council Planning Committee extends the planning permission past April 2021 when it was initially due to expire and allows a pedestrian crossing at Ormeau Embankment to be put in place – the first phase of the bridge.
Seven black-and-white photographs taken in the early 1870s have emerged for sale with an auctioneers
Taken by local photographer James Hedderly, they include iconic spots of west London including Chelsea
The sale will take place at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex on Tuesday, December 15
Shots include Old Battersea Bridge, Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk and a monument to Sir Hans Sloane