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Welcome to our Community Page!
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Community representatives who sit on the board of the Belfast Hills Partnership have listed below the key community issues within the Belfast Hills.
We have also outlined the work we are carrying out in relation to these issues as well as information on the Belfast Hills Community Forum, useful contacts and information sources.
If you or your group have any feedback, suggestions or requests for us on these or other issues please use the Contact Us page to get in touch.
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ACCESS
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- Health
- Community Events
- Transport, public, schools & private
- Sites to visit & use
- Community safety/access code
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EMPLOYMENT
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- Small businesses
- Farming
- Other land management e.g. contracting
- Large businesses e.g. quarrying & major landfills
- Tourism related jobs
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BIODIVERSITY
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- Community Conservation
- Volunteering opportunities
- Information & advice
- Community education about threats – fires, flytipping etc
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DEVELOPMENT
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- Housing shortage
- Services
- Traffic
- Impact on landscape & wildlife
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WASTE
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- Major landfills - associated traffic & potential pollution
- Fly tipping
- Extra traffic
- Strategic Planning
- Pollution – aerial, water, litter
- Cleansing – footpath, roads etc
- Illegal landfill - Enforcement & regulation
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QUARRYING
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- Safety
- Associated Traffic
- Future reclamation of sites & community use
- Loss of landscape
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INFORMATION
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- Who to contact re issues
- Information access & networks
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Community Forum
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The Belfast Hills Partnership has a Community Forum Group. This Forum aims to bring local community issues related to the Belfast Hills to the attention of Partnership and beyond, and will also keep members updated on the work of the Partnership in these areas by way of emails, newsletters, personal contact and occasional or annual meetings. The Community Forum may nominate people to sit both on the Board of the Belfast Hills Partnership and the Community Issues Working Group. Representatives from Colin Glen Trust, Glen Road Environmental Action Team, Cave Hill Conservation Campaign and Black Mountain Environmental Group currently sit on the Board of the Belfast Hills Partnership to voice the views of the local community. If you want your community group to join the Community Forum please contact the Belfast Hills Partnership.
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