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Views over Tullygarley bridge looking down the River Braid to the application site Mid and East Antrim Borough Council’s Planning Committee has approved an outline application for 28 dwellings at Dunluce Park, Ballymena, despite 53 letters of objection and a petition containing almost 1,000 signatures. The application was given the go-ahead at a meeting of the committee in The Braid, Ballymena, on Thursday morning. A planning officer told the committee the outline application

Views across Tullygarley bridge toward the proposed housing development site near the River Braid Planning officers have recommended approval for a controversial housing development beside Ballymena’s Braid River Walk despite months of fierce opposition from residents, environmental concerns and a petition backed by hundreds of people. The proposal, which has triggered one of the most emotionally charged local planning disputes in Ballymena in recent years, would see 28 new h

A tray of mail discovered by a dog walker on Saturday morning along a local river walk in Ballymena. Royal Mail has launched an investigation after a tray of undelivered letters was discovered along a popular riverside walk in Ballymena. A local resident made the unsettling find on Saturday morning, 17 January, while walking his dog along the Braid River Walk in the Tullygarley area of the town. The man noticed one of Royal Mail’s distinctive grey plastic ‘perstop’ trays conc

Local UUP Councillor Brian Thompson with Rosie Orr and a number of other local residents launch Stop The Build Community Group as they deliver a strongly supported petition and letters of opposition to council’s planning director at Ardeevin, Ballymena. Opposition is continuing to grow against a proposed housing development close to the Braid River Walk in Ballymena, with residents from across the wider Tullygarley and Galgorm Road areas joining forces to protect what they de

Yvonne Carson, Northern Trust, Rural Health and Wellbeing Manager, Valerie Cubitt, Eurospar, Cullybackey, Leona Rock, Community Staff Nurse, Cullybackey Medical Practice, Marion Orr, District Nursing Coach, Joanne Brown Kerr, Development Officer, Bann Maine West with volunteers Helen and Samantha from Cullybackey Community Partnership. The Northern Health and Social Care Trust has joined forces with Bann Maine West Community Cluster to bring festive cheer to some of the most

A public consultation event is set to take place in Ballymena to discuss a proposed new housing development near the Tullygarley area of...