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Footnotes
[Footnote 1] For the purposes of the Housing Land Availability Monitor, the draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan (BMAP) 2015 is utilised rather than the former Belfast Urban Area Plan (BUAP) 2001. The adopted BMAP was quashed as a result of a judgement in the Court of Appeal delivered on 18 May 2017 and, although this means the BUAP is now the statutory development plan for the area, the draft BMAP, in its most recent, pre-examination, form remains a significant material consideration in future planning decisions. Draft BMAP therefore refers to that which was purported to be adopted and not the pre-examination draft published in 2004.
[Footnote 2] - Belfast City Council Urban Capacity Study – 20 March 2018
[Footnote 3] - The Urban Footprint is defined within the Regional Development Strategy 2035 as “the continuous built-up area of the settlement”. The Urban Footprint boundary was updated as part of the UCS (March, 2018) as explained in the 2017 - 2018 Belfast Housing Land Availability Summary Report. The 2018 Urban Footprint forms a revised baseline position for the 2017-2018 monitor period onwards.
