Planning application
1-15 (odds) Skipperstone Park, 11-33 (odds) Skipperstone Avenue, 1-6 Skipperstone Gardens, and 100-122 (evens) Bloomfield Road South, Bangor
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Discharge of Conditions 8 and 26 of planning approval LA06/2024/0623/F which state: Condition 8: Prior to the construction of the drainage network, a final Drainage Assessment, compliant with Policy FLD 3 and Annex D of PPS 15, shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Council. The final Drainage Assessment must demonstrate the safe management of any out of sewer flooding emanating from the surface water drainage network, agreed under Article 161, in a 1 in 100 year event including an allowance for climate change and urban creep. The drainage network must be provided in accordance with the approved details prior to the commencement of use of the development hereby approved. Reason: In order to safeguard against surface water flood risk to the development and manage and mitigate any increase in surface water flood risk from the development to elsewhere. Condition 26: A detailed landscape management and maintenance plan including long term design objectives, performance indicators, management responsibilities, and maintenance schedules for all landscaped areas shall be submitted to and agreed in writing by the Council prior to the commencement of operation of the development hereby approved. The landscape management and maintenance plan shall be permanently carried out as approved. Reason: To ensure the sustainability of the approved landscape design through its successful establishment and long-term maintenance.
As published by the council, reference LA06/2026/0184/DC
Application record
- Reference
- LA06/2026/0184/DC
- Type
- Discharge of Condition
- Status
- Determined
- Decision
- Granted As published: Condition Partially Discharged
- Received
- 3 Mar 2026
- Validated
- 3 Mar 2026
- Decided
- 26 May 2026
- Ward
- Castle (North Down and Ards)
Site history
Applications at this address on the Ards and North Down register
This site has had 2 applications since 2026: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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LA06/2026/0665/S54 Awaiting decision
1-15 (odds) Skipperstone Park, 11-33 (odds) Skipperstone Avenue, 1-6 Skipperstone Gardens, and 100-122 (evens) Bloomfield Road South, Bangor
Demolition of existing dwellings, erection of discount supermarket, provision of access, car parking, landscaping, removal of bus lay-by, relocation of bus shelter, relocation of pedestrian footway between Bloomfield Road South and Skipperstone Avenue, and associated site works (Relocation of existing Lidl supermarket from 97 Bloomfield Road to west of Bloomfield Road South and South of Skipperstone Park. Existing building at 97 Bloomfield Road to be retained but retail use to be extinguished). Variation of Conditions 2 (access) , 3 (splays), 5 (pedestrian path), 6 (road works), 7 (bus stop), 18 (hard surface) and 23 (landscaping) of previously approved application LA06/2024/0623/F (full proposal available on the public portal)
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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3 Mar 2026
Received by Ards and North Down
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26 May 2026
Decision issued: Condition Partially Discharged
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29 Jul 2026
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Ards and North Down granted permission on 26 May 2026, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.
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1-15 (odds) Skipperstone Park, 11-33 (odds) Skipperstone Avenue, 1-6 Skipperstone Gardens, and 100-122 (evens) Bloomfield Road South, Bangor
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