Councils prepare for new planning responsibilities
More than 200 local government delegates, including Moyle’s councillor Robert McIlroy, attended a seminar to help prepare councils for their upcoming duty of community planning.
Hosted by the Department of the Environment at the Tullyglass Hotel, Ballymena, the event examined the recently published Community Planning Foundation Programme and the part it plays in councils’ preparations for community planning – a duty they will take forward from April 2015 under local government reform.
Environment Minister Mark H Durkan said: “Community planning involves integrating all the various streams of public life, such as the services and functions that are delivered in an area.”