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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

Granted Ards and North Down LA06/2026/0184/DC Discharge of Condition

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.

  • 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)

    Submitted 22 Jul 2026

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 3 Mar 2026

    Received by Ards and North Down

  2. 26 May 2026

    Decision issued: Condition Partially Discharged

  3. 29 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Who's behind it

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MBA Planning Ltd Agent, a planning consultancy registered in Belfast

Active · incorporated 2015 · Belfast

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Documents

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7 documents on file for this application

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What this grant of permission means

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.

About condition discharge and variation applications

This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.

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    96% historically approved · decision due ~23 Sep

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