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Annual Report 2015 -16
Annual Report 2015 -16 Annual Report 2015 -16 1 Annual Report 2015 -16 Annual Report 2015 -16 Table of Contents Foreword 4 Our Vision 6 Mission Statement 7 Corporate Improvement Governance Framework 8-9 Our Council 10 Elected Members 11-14 15 PLACE 15-18 Summary of Key Achievements 2015 -16 PEOPLE 19-22 19 Summary of Key Achievements 2015 -16 PROSPERITY 23-26 23 Summary of Key Achievements 2015 -16 PERFORMANCE 27-29 27 Summary of Key Achievements 2015 -16 Financial Overview 30 Statutory Indicators 31 2 3 Annual Report 2015 -16 Strolling onAnnual Belfast Loughshore Report 2015 -16 Foreword and Introduction Welcome to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council’s first Annual Report on performance for the In combining the two organisations, the Council has taken the opportunity to introduce a new year 2015 -16. In April 2015 we published our Corporate Plan, 2015 - 30 for the newly formed Council operating model, reduce costs, develop its people and improve and expand its services for our and outlined our commitment to delivering the long term vision to become a ‘Prosperous Place, Inspired customers and residents. by our People, and Driven by Ambition’. This Annual Report 2015 -16 provides an overview of the progress made in terms of the four In this inaugural year, we have put in place an ambitious programme, focusing on delivering, improving strategic pillars set out in the Corporate Plan 2015 - 30. It also includes an overview of the and transforming services for the benefit of our customers and ratepayers. We will continue with this Council’s financial performance for 2015 - 16 and provides detail on how we performed against a journey to achieve and excel on our customers and ratepayers behalf. -
Smythe-Wood Series A
Smythe-Wood Newspaper Index – “A” series – mainly Co Tyrone Irish Genealogical Research Society Dr P Smythe-Wood’s Irish Newspaper Index Selected families, mainly from Co Tyrone ‘Series A’ The late Dr Patrick Smythe-Wood presented a large collection of card indexes to the IGRS Library, reflecting his various interests, - the Irish in Canada, Ulster families, various professions etc. These include abstracts from various Irish Newspapers, including the Belfast Newsletter, which are printed below. Abstracts are included for all papers up to 1864, but excluding any entries in the Belfast Newsletter prior to 1801, as they are fully available online. Dr Smythe-Wood often found entries in several newspapers for the one event, & these will be shown as one entry below. Entries dealing with RIC Officers, Customs & Excise Officers, Coastguards, Prison Officers, & Irish families in Canada will be dealt with in separate files, although a small cache of Canadian entries is included here, being families closely associated with Co Tyrone. In most cases, Dr Smythe-Wood has recorded the exact entry, but in some, marked thus *, the entries were adjusted into a database, so should be treated with more caution. There are further large card indexes of Miscellaneous notes on families which are not at present being digitised, but which often deal with the same families treated below. ANC: Anglo-Celt LSL Londonderry Sentinel ARG Armagh Guardian LST Londonderry Standard/Derry Standard BAI Ballina Impartial LUR Lurgan Times BAU Banner of Ulster MAC Mayo Constitution -
1 6 January 2021 Chairman
6 January 2021 Chairman: Councillor M Cooper Vice Chairman: Councillor M Goodman Committee Members: Aldermen - J McGrath and P Michael Councillors - P Dunlop, G Finlay, N McClelland, V McWilliam, M Magill, N Ramsay, V Robinson, S Ross, L Smyth, M Stewart, and R Wilson Dear Member MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY PLANNING COMMITTEE A remote meeting of the Community Planning Committee will be held in the Council Chamber, Mossley Mill on Monday 11 January 2021 at 6.30 pm All Members are asked to attend the meeting via “Zoom”. To ensure social distancing, it is only possible to facilitate 11 Members in the Council Chamber. Priority admission will be given to Committee Members on a first come, first served basis. This does not affect the rights of any Member participating in the meeting. You are requested to attend. Yours sincerely Jacqui Dixon, BSc MBA Chief Executive, Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough Council For any queries please contact Member Services: Tel: 028 9034 0048/028 9448 1301 [email protected] 1 AGENDA 1 APOLOGIES 2 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST 3 ITEMS FOR DECISION 3.1 COVID-19 Community Support Fund 3.2 Areas at Risk Proposals for 2021-22 3.3 Good Relations Grant Aid 3.4 Northern Ireland Housing Executive Rural Housing Strategy 2021-2025 3.5 Department Of Health Draft Mental Health Strategy 2021-2031 – Public Consultation 3.6 Correspondence From Department For Infrastructure Re Proposed Speed Limit Reduction – Randalstown Road, Antrim 3.7 Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 Codes of Practice 3.8 Centenary of Northern Ireland -
Robert John Lynch-24072009.Pdf
THE NORTHERN IRA AND THE EARY YEARS OF PARTITION 1920-22 Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Stirling. ROBERT JOHN LYNCH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY DECEMBER 2003 CONTENTS Abstract 2 Declaration 3 Acknowledgements 4 Abbreviations 5 Chronology 6 Maps 8 Introduction 11 PART I: THE WAR COMES NORTH 23 1 Finding the Fight 2 North and South 65 3 Belfast and the Truce 105 PART ll: OFFENSIVE 146 4 The Opening of the Border Campaign 167 5 The Crisis of Spring 1922 6 The Joint-IRA policy 204 PART ILL: DEFEAT 257 7 The Army of the North 8 New Policies, New Enemies 278 Conclusion 330 Bibliography 336 ABSTRACT The years i 920-22 constituted a period of unprecedented conflct and political change in Ireland. It began with the onset of the most brutal phase of the War of Independence and culminated in the effective miltary defeat of the Republican IRA in the Civil War. Occurring alongside these dramatic changes in the south and west of Ireland was a far more fundamental conflict in the north-east; a period of brutal sectarian violence which marked the early years of partition and the establishment of Northern Ireland. Almost uniquely the IRA in the six counties were involved in every one of these conflcts and yet it can be argued was on the fringes of all of them. The period i 920-22 saw the evolution of the organisation from a peripheral curiosity during the War of independence to an idealistic symbol for those wishing to resolve the fundamental divisions within the Sinn Fein movement which developed in the first six months of i 922. -
1 Demographic Change and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Demographic Change and Conflict in Northern Ireland: Reconciling Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence Eric Kaufmann James Fearon and David Laitin (2003) famously argued that there is no connection between the ethnic fractionalisation of a state’s population and its likelihood of experiencing ethnic conflict. This has contributed towards a general view that ethnic demography is not integral to explaining ethnic violence. Furthermore, sophisticated attempts to probe the connection between ethnic shifts and conflict using large-N datasets have failed to reveal a convincing link. Thus Toft (2007), using Ellingsen's dataset for 1945-94, finds that in world-historical perspective, since 1945, ethno-demographic change does not predict civil war. Toft developed hypotheses from realist theories to explain why a growing minority and/or shrinking majority might set the conditions for conflict. But in tests, the results proved inconclusive. These cross-national data-driven studies tell a story that is out of phase with qualitative evidence from case study and small-N comparative research. Donald Horowitz cites the ‘fear of extinction’ voiced by numerous ethnic group members in relation to the spectre of becoming minorities in ‘their’ own homelands due to differences of fertility and migration. (Horowitz 1985: 175-208) Slack and Doyon (2001) show how districts in Bosnia where Serb populations declined most against their Muslim counterparts during 1961-91 were associated with the highest levels of anti-Muslim ethnic violence. Likewise, a growing field of interest in African studies concerns the problem of ‘autochthony’, whereby ‘native’ groups wreak havoc on new settlers in response to the perception that migrants from more advanced or dense population regions are ‘swamping’ them. -
The Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism
“No Idle Sightseers”: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism (1911-1920s) Pamela Blythe McKane A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN POLITICAL SCIENCE YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO JANUARY 2015 ©Pamela Blythe McKane 2015 Abstract Title: “No Idle Sightseers”: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism (1911-1920s) This doctoral dissertation examines the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council (UWUC), an overlooked, but historically significant Ulster unionist institution, during the 1910s and 1920s—a time of great conflict. Ulster unionists opposed Home Rule for Ireland. World War 1 erupted in 1914 and was followed by the Anglo-Irish War (1919- 1922), the partition of Ireland in 1922, and the Civil War (1922-1923). Within a year of its establishment the UWUC was the largest women’s political organization in Ireland with an estimated membership of between 115,000 and 200,000. Yet neither the male- dominated Ulster unionist institutions of the time, nor the literature related to Ulster unionism and twentieth-century Irish politics and history have paid much attention to its existence and work. This dissertation seeks to redress this. The framework of analysis employed is original in terms of the concepts it combines with a gender focus. It draws on Rogers Brubaker’s (1996) concepts of “nation” as practical category, institutionalized form (“nationhood”), and contingent event (“nationness”), combining these concepts with William Walters’ (2004) concept of “domopolitics” and with a feminist understanding of the centrality of gender to nation. -
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Planning Applications – Airport, Antrim and Dunsilly DEAs Planning Applications The Planning Committee meets monthly to consider all non-delegated applications. The Council’s Scheme of Delegation is available at: www.antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk. Full details of the following applications including plans are available to view via Public Access on the NI Planning Portal www.planningni.gov.uk or at the Council Planning Office. Telephone 0300 123 6677. Text Phone 18001 028 9034 000. Written comments should be submitted within 14 days and should quote the application number. Please note that all representations will be made available on Public Access. APPLICATION NO LOCATION PROPOSAL (IN BRIEF) 12 Carnbeg Green, LA03/2020/0302/F Single storey rear extension Antrim Spa reception, spa garden with wall, pool, sauna, steam room, plant room The Templeton Hotel, and associated ground works; change LA03/2020/0303/F 882 Antrim Road, of use from hotel ancillary area to 9no. Templepatrick bedrooms; and alterations to hotel to include fenestration, lightwells and Juliet balconies Change of use from dwelling to self 59 Loughview Road, catering short term holiday let LA03/2020/0304/F Aldergrove, Crumlin including restoration and extension of existing cottage Alterations and extension of cottage LA03/2020/0305/ 59 Loughview Road, with change of use from domestic to LBC Aldergrove, Crumlin self catering holiday let Change of use from warehouse to Unit 3 , Site 10 Enkalon accommodate a commercial kitchen, Road, Enkalon Industrial LA03/2020/0306/F glass shopfront with roller shutter, fire Estate, Randalstown escape to front and rear passageway Road Antrim and associated site works 60 Main Street, 14no residential units, associated road LA03/2020/0308/F Toomebridge layout, car parking and landscaping Site approx. -
Planning Applications Received and Decided in the Period 01 April – 29 February 2016
Update on Development Management Statistics: 23rd March 2016 Planning Applications Received and Decided in the period 01 April – 29 February 2016 Planning Committee Linkage to Council Strategy (2015-19) Strategic Theme Protecting and Enhancing our Environments and Assets Outcome Pro-active decision making which protects the natural features, characteristics and integrity of the Borough Lead Officer Denise Dickson Cost: (If applicable) N/A 1.0 Background The ‘’Protocol for the Operation of the Planning Committee’ sets out the requirement to provide monthly updates on the number of planning applications received and decided. 2.0 Details 2.1 Annex 1 and 2 provide a list of planning applications received and decided respectively by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council in the month of February. Please note these exclude Pre-Application Discussions; Certificates of Lawful Development – Proposed or Existing; Discharge of Conditions and Non- Material Changes, to correspond with official validated statistics published by DoE. 2.2 Table 1 below details the number of planning applications received and decided as well as the number of live planning applications in the system and those in the system over 12months. Please note that only Q1 are validated statistics and all other statistics are extracted from internal management reports. Table 1 Applications Received, Decided and Live Applications Q1 Q2 Q3 January February Received (Source: Northern Ireland Planning Statistics 2015/16 first Quarterly Bulletin) Received 301 295 302 111 115 Decided 230 256 283 48 122 Live 82 95 106 106 95 >12months Total Live 685 730 715 739 751 Source: Unvalidated Statistics; Excludes: Pre-Application Discussions; Certificate of Lawful Development Proposed or Existing; Discharge of Conditions; Non-Material Change. -
MUDC601 Copy Of
MUDC601 STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (SCI) FOR THE NEW MID ULSTER LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2030 AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS May 2016 1 CONTENTS 1.0 What is the purpose of the Statement of Community Involvement? 1.1 Purpose of the Statement 1.2 Vision of Participation 1.6 Principles of Community Involvement 2.0 Local Community Involvement in the preparation of the Mid Ulster Local Development Plan 2030 2.1 Purpose and Structure of the Local Development Plan 2.8 Who can get Involved? 2.10 Empowering disadvantaged and under-represented groups 2.13 How and when will the community be involved? 2.14 Developing an Evidence Base 2.15 Preferred Options Paper 2.17 Publication of Draft Plan Strategy 2.18 Public Inspection of Representations 2.19 Independent Examination 2.20 Adoption of Plan Strategy 2.21 Local Policies Plan 2.22 Public Inspection of Representations 2.23 Independent Examination 2.24 Adoption of Local Policies Plan 2.25 Next Steps 3.0 Local Community Involvement in Mid Ulster Development Management Functions 3.1 Purpose 3.3 Pre-Application Discussions (PAD’s) 3.4 Pre-Application Community Consultation (PACC) 3.7 Application Stage 3.8 Advertising 3.10 EIA Development 2 3.12 Neighbour Notification 3.15 Obtaining Further Information and getting involved in planning applications 3.16 Public Register 3.17 File Inspection 3.18 Submitting Comments 3.27 Community Involvement at the Planning Committee Stage 3.28 Pre-determination hearings and speaking at the Planning Committee 3.30 Community Involvement after a Planning Application -
Register of Employers
REGISTER OF EMPLOYERS A Register of Concerns in which people are employed in accordance with Article 47 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Equality House 7-9 Shaftesbury Square Belfast BT2 7DP Tel: (02890) 500 600 Fax: (02890) 328 970 Textphone: (02890) 500 589 E-mail [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2003 ________________________________________________REGISTRATION The Register Under Article 47 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 the Commission has a duty to keep a Register of those concerns employing more than 10 people in Northern Ireland and to make the information contained in the Register available for inspection by members of the public. The Register is available for use by the public in the Commission’s office. Under the legislation, public authorities as specified by the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister are automatically treated as registered with the Commission. All other employers have a duty to register if they have more than 10 employees working 16 hours or more per week. Employers who meet the conditions for registration are given one month in which to apply for registration. This month begins from the end of the week in which the concern employed more than 10 employees in Northern Ireland. It is a criminal offence for such an employer not to apply for registration within this period. Persons who become employers in relation to a registered concern are also under a legal duty to apply to have their name and address entered on the Register within one month of becoming such an employer. -
Department of Education
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Peter Weir, Minister Rathgael House, Balloo Road Bangor, BT19 7PR Justin McNulty MLA Parliament Buildings Ballymiscaw Stormont 23 January 2017 AQW 9494/16-21 Justin McNulty MLA has asked: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the Local Management of Schools budget for each school in (i) 2007-08; (ii) 2008-09; (iii) 2009-10; (iv) 2010-11; (v) 2011-12; (vi) 2012-13; (vii) 2013-14; (viii) 2014-15; and (ix) 2015-16. ANSWER Details of each school’s delegated budget are published every year by the relevant Funding Authority on their website. I have arranged for copies of the information requested to be placed in the Assembly Library. Peter Weir MLA Justin McNulty MLA AQW 9494/16-21 To ask the Minister of Education to detail the Local Management of Schools budget for each school in (i) 2007-08; (ii) 2008-09; (iii) 2009-10; (iv) 2010-11; (v) 2011-12; (vi) 2012-13; (vii) 2013-14; (viii) 2014-15; and (ix) 2015-16. AQW 9494 16-21: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the Local Management of Schools budget for each school in (i) 2007-08; (ii) 2008-09; (iii) 2009-10; (iv) 2010-11; (v) 2011-12; (vi) 2012-13; (vii) 2013-14; (viii) 2014-15; and (ix) 2015-16. Budget for each school in (i) 2007-08 DE Reference Total CFF funding Number School Type School Name 2007/08 * 542-0059 VGS Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar, Newry £3,320,176 401-6399 PS Abbey Primary £1,368,660 301-0862 PS Abbots Cross Primary £700,740 501-1594 PS Abercorn Primary £838,034 401-6201 PS Academy Primary £905,037 306-6568 GMIP Acorn Integrated Primary -
From Evidence to Opportunity: State
From Evidence to Opportunity A Second Assessment of the State of Northern Ireland’s Environment 2013 Ministerial Foreword Our rich and varied natural environment and built heritage lie at the heart of our lives and are central to building a strong economy and sense of well-being. This second report on the State of the Environment in Northern Ireland brings together recent information on how our environment is performing across land, water, sea and air. The indicators and emerging trends show complex interactions between different parts of our environment and how our activities in one area can impact on another. In some areas, such as in water quality and recycling, we are making steady progress whilst in others, such as reversing the decline in our biodiversity, significant challenges remain. We recognise that there are shortfalls and gaps in our knowledge but the evidence highlights how we need to respond. A better understanding of the pressures we face will help us to make the right decisions in creating a healthy and prosperous society which is resilient to change. This report will make a valuable contribution to this process. The challenges identified in our first report on climate change, biodiversity and land use have been brought into even sharper focus as we adopt new approaches to stimulate growth following the global economic downturn. To address these challenges we need to recognise in all our decision-making the full value of the services our natural environment and built heritage provide in underpinning a healthy economy, prosperity and well-being. All of us have a role to play in shaping the environment we want for our future.