Premises fronting onto Church Street
Planning permission has been granted by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council for a new apartment development in Ballymena town centre.
The application submitted by Ms Nicole Doherty of Deck Chair Developments Ltd on 28 June 2023, was approved on Monday (14 August). The proposal concerns properties on the corner of Church Street and Meeting House Lane (73-77 and 79-81 Church Street).
The premises have been most recently used as a hair and beauty training school, and a retail unit, and have both been vacant since around 2018.
The development location on the corner of Church Street and Meeting House Lane
Plans will see reconfiguration, refurbishment and alterations made to the existing buildings on the site to provide ground floor retail space onto Chirch Street, alongside six residential units.
Overall the proposed development includes:
Ground Floor
• x2 retail units accessed from Church Street.
• x1 two bedroom apartment on ground floor
• Car parking area to rear of premises
First Floor
• x3 two bedroom apartments
• x1 one bedroom apartment
Second Floor
• x1 two bedroom apartment
• communal private amenity roof terrace at rear
Cross section views into the side of the development
The newly configured buildings will include an apartment lobby that can be accessed from both Church Street and the car parking area at the rear of the building with an entrance/exit to Meeting House Lane.
Approval for the plans are part of a current transformation taking place across the UK, which is seeing the return of residential living space amid town centres.