Planning application
Newgrove House 191 Ballylesson Road, Belfast, BT8 8JU
Works: Extension Small domestic
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Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Proposed new Golf Club to include an 18-hole signature golf course of Championship standard and club house with associated practice facilities including driving range, putting greens and a maintenance area. Development will involve the removal of various redundant agricultural outbuildings and structures to accommodate change of use with alterations/extensions of the Grade B1 listed buildings (Newgrove House and adjacent workers cottage) to provide a new club house and golf equipment storage cottage, with the erection of additional club house accommodation through a standalone detached single storey building, landscaped setting, and car parking areas. Proposal also includes relocated access and associated improvements from Ballylesson Road, upgrade to internal access road with new laneways and pathways, parking and ancillary site works. Course design to include the re-profiling of ground levels, the incorporation of existing Mill Race into layout, new footbridges, and provision of natural, semi-natural and maintained landscape and new water features (incorporating sustainable drainage principles including the creation of wet and dry swales, attenuation basins and earth berms).
As published by the council, reference LA05/2026/0424/PAN
Application record
- Reference
- LA05/2026/0424/PAN
- Type
- Proposal of Application Notice
- Status
- Determined
- Decision
- Acceptable
- Received
- 18 May 2026
- Validated
- 18 May 2026
- Decided
- 30 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Belvoir
- Postcode
- BT8 8JU
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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18 May 2026
Received by Lisburn and Castlereagh
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29 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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30 Jul 2026
Decision issued: Acceptable
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
4 documents on file for this application
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Lisburn and Castlereagh granted permission on 30 July 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 this record
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